Carlos Ruiz Zafón





Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist. Born in Barcelona in 1964, he has lived in Los Angeles, United States, since 1994, and works as a scriptwriter aside from writing novels.

His first novel, El príncipe de la niebla (The Prince of Mist, 1993), earned the Edebé literary prize for young adult fiction. He is also the author of three more young-adult novels, El palacio de la medianoche (1994), Las luces de septiembre (1995) and Marina (1999).

In 2001 he published the novel La sombra del viento ("The Shadow of the Wind"), his first "adult" novel, which has sold millions of copies worldwide. Since its publication, La sombra del viento has garnered critical acclaim around the world and has won numerou...more


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Average rating: 4.03 · 87,066 ratings · 13,501 reviews · 22 distinct works
The Shadow of the Wind
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 63,876 ratings — published 2001 — 137 editions
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The Angel's Game
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 15,442 ratings — published 2008 — 87 editions
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The Prince of Mist (Niebla, #1...
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3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 2,830 ratings — published 1993 — 45 editions
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Marina
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 1,256 ratings — published 1999 — 35 editions
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The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #...
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3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 974 ratings — published 1998 — 42 editions
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Las Luces De Septiembre (Niebl...
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 380 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 16 editions
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El prisionero del cielo
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 156 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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El Juego del Ángel / La Sombr...
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2008
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La trilogía de la niebla
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Gaudí in Manhattan
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3.05 of 5 stars 3.05 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions
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More books by Carlos Ruiz Zafón…
The Shadow of the Wind The Angel's Game El prisionero del cielo
El cementerio de los libros olvidados (3 books)
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4.07046299212598 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 79,375 ratings
The Prince of Mist The Midnight Palace Las Luces De Septiembre
Niebla (3 books)
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3.47343226424126 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 4,178 ratings

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“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
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