Carlos Ruiz Zafon has 26 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 13 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.3★ across 187 ratings. The most-rated is The Shadow of the Wind.
The Shadow of the Wind
Summary
Barcelona, 1945: Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his 11th birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it, his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness, and doomed love. An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller's art. Translated by Lucia Graves.
©2001 Carlos Ruiz Zafon; 2004 Lucia Graves (P)2004 Penguin Audio
The Labyrinth of the Spirits
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The internationally acclaimed New York Times best-selling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his best-selling novels The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, and The Prisoner of Heaven in this riveting series finale - a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark history of Franco’s Spain. In this unforgettable final volume of Ruiz Zafón’s cycle of novels set in the universe of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, beautiful and enigmatic Alicia Gris, with the help of the Sempere family, uncovers one of the most shocking conspiracies in all Spanish history. Nine-year-old Alicia lost her parents during the Spanish Civil War when the Nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed Barcelona in 1938. Twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. Weary of her work as an investigator for Spain’s secret police in Madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the 29-year old plans to move on. At the insistence of her boss, Leandro Montalvo, she remains to solve one last case: the mysterious disappearance of Spain’s Minister of Culture, Mauricio Valls. With her partner, the intimidating policeman Juan Manuel Vargas, Alicia discovers a possible clue - a rare book by the author Victor Mataix hidden in Valls’ office in his Madrid mansion. Valls was the director of the notorious Montjuic Prison in Barcelona during World War II where several writers were imprisoned, including David Martín and Victor Mataix. Traveling to Barcelona on the trail of these writers, Alicia and Vargas meet with several booksellers, including Juan Sempere, who knew her parents. As Alicia and Vargas come closer to finding Valls, they uncover a tangled web of kidnappings and murders tied to the Franco regime, whose corruption is more widespread and horrifying than anyone imagined. Alicia’s courageous and uncompromising search for the truth puts her life in peril. Only with the help of a circle of devoted friends will she emerge from the dark labyrinths of Barcelona and its history into the light of the future. In this haunting new novel, Carlos Ruiz Zafón proves yet again that he is a masterful storyteller and pays homage to the world of books, to his ingenious creation of the Cemetery of Forgotten, and to that magical bridge between literature and our lives.
©2016 Carlos Ruiz Zafón; Translation copyright 2017 by Lucia Graves (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group
L'Ombre du vent
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Dans la Barcelone de 1945, le jeune Daniel Sempere est conduit par son père dans un lieu mystérieux : le cimetière des livres oubliés. Là, il est soumis à un étrange rituel : "adopter" un livre, qu'il aura mission de "sauver". Ce sera L'Ombre du vent d'un certain Julien Carax. Désormais lié à ce roman et à l'énigmatique destin de son auteur, Daniel voit sa vie basculer dans un entrelacs d'aventures et d'énigmes. La voix subtile de Frédéric Meaux épouse à merveille les multiples tonalités de ce livre étrange et captivant.
©2012 Audiolib. Traduit de l'espagnol par François Maspero (P)2012 Audiolib
The Angel's Game
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In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martin, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld.
But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.
Like a slow poison, the history of the place seeps into his bones as he struggles with an impossible love. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a reclusive French editor, Andreas Corelli, who makes him the offer of a lifetime. He is to write a book unlike anything that has ever existed, a book with the power to change hearts and minds. In return, he will receive a fortune, and perhaps more. But as David begins the work, he realizes that there is a connection between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.
Once again, Zafon takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in the Shadow of the Wind and creates a breathtaking adventure of intrigue, romance, and tragedy. Through a dizzingly constructed labyrinth of secrets, the magic of books, passion, and friendship blend into a masterful story.
©2009 Carlos Ruiz Zafon (P)2009 Random House
Marina
Summary
Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting gothic mystery, which has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international best seller. "We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine." Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly 10 o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave. When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten postwar Barcelona - a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons - and reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.
©2014 Carlos Ruiz Zafon (P)2014 Hachette Audio
The Prisoner of Heaven
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Once again, internationally acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón creates a rich, labyrinthine tale of love, literature, passion, and revenge, set in a dark, gothic Barcelona, in which the heroes of The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game must contend with a nemesis that threatens to destroy them. "Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show." - New York Times Book Review on Shadow of the Wind
©2012 Carlos Ruiz Zafon (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
La Sombra del Viento
Summary
«Todavía recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevó por primera vez a visitar el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados.» Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambia el rumbo de su vida y le arrastra a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. La Sombra del Viento es un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo xx, desde los últimos esplendores del Modernismo hasta las tinieblas de la posguerra. Aunando las técnicas del relato de intriga y suspense, la novela histórica y la comedia de costumbres, La Sombra del Viento es sobre todo una trágica historia de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros cuya intriga se mantiene hasta el final. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2017 Carlos Ruiz Zafón; Corelliana LLC (P)2019 Editorial Planeta, S.A.
Le prisonnier du ciel
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Barcelone, 1957. Daniel Sempere et son ami Fermin, les héros de L'Ombre du vent affrontent le plus grand défi de leur vie. Un secret ressurgit du passé de Fermin, qui lie leurs vies, et éclaire d'un jour nouveau le passé de Daniel, et son destin. Débordant d'intrigues et d'émotions, Le prisonnier du ciel est un roman magistral où les multiples fils de L'Ombre du vent et du Jeu de l'ange se rassemblent au travers de ce livre audio pour nous conduire vers l'énigme qui se cache au cœur du Cimetière des livres oubliés.
©2012 Editions Robert Laffont, S.A. Traduit de l'espagnol par François Maspero (P)2012 Audiolib
The Prince of Mist
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It's war time, and the Carver family decides to leave the capital where they live and move to a small coastal village where they've recently bought a home. But from the minute they cross the threshold, strange things begin to happen. In that mysterious house still lurks the spirit of Jacob, the previous owners' son, who died by drowning.With the help of their new friend Roland, Max and Alicia Carver begin to explore the strange circumstances of that death and discover the existence of a mysterious being called the Prince of Mist - a diabolical character who has returned from the shadows to collect on a debt from the past. Soon the three friends find themselves caught up in an adventure of sunken ships and an enchanted stone garden - an adventure that will change their lives forever.
©2010 Carlos Ruiz Zafon (P)2010 Hachette
Le jeu de l'ange
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"Je t'emmènerai dans un endroit secret où les livres ne meurent jamais et où personne ne peut les détruire..." Dans la turbulente Barcelone des années 1920, David, un jeune écrivain hanté par un amour impossible, reçoit l'offre inespérée d'un mystérieux éditeur : écrire un livre comme il n'en a jamais existé, "une histoire pour laquelle les hommes seraient capables de vivre et de mourir, de tuer et d'être tués", en échange d'une fortune et, peut-être de beaucoup plus. Mais du jour où il accepte ce contrat, une étrange mécanique de destruction se met en place autour de lui, menaçant les êtres qu'il aime le plus au monde. En monnayant son talent d'écrivain, David aurait-il vendu son âme au diable ? La voix de Frédéric Meaux vous entraîne à la suite de personnages tour à tour candides et mystérieux, en une lecture dangereusement envoûtante.
©2009 . Traduit de l'espagnol par François Maspero (P)200 9
Le Labyrinthe des esprits
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Cette nuit j'ai rêvé que je retournais au Cimetière des Livres oubliés... Dans la Barcelone franquiste des années de plomb, la disparition d'un ministre déchaîne une cascade d'assassinats, de représailles et de mystères. Mais pour contrer la censure, la propagande et la terreur, la jeune Alicia Gris, tout droit sortie des entrailles de ce régime nauséabond, est habile à se jouer des miroirs et des masques. Son enquête l'amène à croiser la route du libraire Daniel Sempere. Il n'est plus ce petit garçon qui trouva un jour dans les travées du Cimetière des Livres oubliés l'ouvrage qui allait changer sa vie, mais un adulte au cœur empli de tristesse et de colère. Le silence qui entoure la mort de sa mère a ouvert dans son âme un abîme dont nul ne parvient à le tirer. En compagnie d'Alicia, tous les membres du clan Sempere affrontent la vérité sur l'histoire secrète de leur famille et, quel qu'en soit le prix à payer, voguent vers l'accomplissement de leur destin. Érudition, maîtrise et profondeur sont la marque de ce roman qui gronde de passions, d'intrigues et d'aventures. Un formidable hommage à la littérature.
©2016/2018 Editorial Planeta, S. A., Barcelone / Carlos Ruiz Zafón / ACTES SUD (P)2018 Audiolib
The Prince of Mist
Summary
Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast, to a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife, that was abandoned when the couple's son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house, Max spies an overgrown garden full of statues surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star. As the family settles in, they grow increasingly uneasy: they discover a box of old films belonging to the Fleischmanns; his sister has unsettling dreams and his other sister hears voices whispering to her from an old wardrobe. But Max spends most of his time with his new friend, Roland, who takes him diving to the wreck of a boat that sank close to the coast in a terrible storm. Everyone on board perished except for one man - an engineer who built the lighthouse at the end of the beach. As they learn more about the wreck, the chilling story of a legendary figure called Prince of the Mists begins to emerge.
©2010 Carlos Ruiz Zafon (P)2010 Orion Publishing Group Limited
The Watcher in the Shadows
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It was an unforgettable summer... When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place - its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love. But a dark mystery is about to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a gigantic mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past. As strange lights shine through the fog surrounding a small, barren island, Irene's younger brother dreams of a dark creature hidden deep in the forest. And when a young girl is found murdered, her body at the end of a path torn through the woods by a monstrous, inhuman force, Irene and Ishmael wonder - has a demonic presence been unleashed on the inhabitants of Cape House? Together, they'll have to survive the most terrifying summer of their lives, as they try to piece together the many mysteries and secrets hidden in a town torn apart by tragedy, amidst a labyrinth of lights and shadows.
©2013 Carlos Ruiz Zafon (P)2013 Hachette Audio
El Prisionero del Cielo
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Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere y su amigo Fermín, los héroes de La Sombra del Viento, regresan de nuevo a la aventura para afrontar el mayor desafío de sus vidas. Justo cuando todo empezaba a sonreírles, un inquietante personaje visita la librería de Sempere y amenaza con desvelar un terrible secreto que lleva enterrado dos décadas en la oscura memoria de la ciudad. Al conocer la verdad, Daniel comprenderá que su destino le arrastra inexorablemente a enfrentarse con la mayor de las sombras: la que está creciendo en su interior. Rebosante de intriga y emoción, El Prisionero del Cielo es una novela magistral donde los hilos de La Sombra del Viento y El Juego del Ángel convergen a través del embrujo de la literatura y nos conduce hacia el enigma que se oculta en el corazón del Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.
©2017 Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Corelliana LLC (P)2020 Editorial Planeta, S. A.
L'ombra del vento
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A Barcellona una mattina d'estate del 1945 il proprietario di un negozio di libri usati conduce il figlio undicenne, Daniel, al Cimitero dei Libri Dimenticati, un luogo segreto dove vengono sottratti all'oblio migliaia di volumi di cui il tempo ha cancellato il ricordo. E qui Daniel entra in possesso di un libro "maledetto" che cambierà il corso della sua vita. Perché dal passato iniziano a emergere storie di passioni illecite, di amori impossibili, di amicizie e lealtà assolute, di follia omicida, e un macabro segreto custodito in una villa abbandonata. Una storia in cui Daniel ritrova a poco a poco inquietanti paralleli con la propria vita. Mystery, romanzo storico e tragedia amorosa, "L'ombra del vento" fa rivivere la grande tradizione del feuilleton ottocentesco con una sensibilità squisitamente contemporanea. Clamoroso caso editoriale, è il libro che ha imposto Zafón sulla scena internazionale, e da allora non ha smesso di stregare milioni di lettori in tutto il mondo. Prodotto e realizzato da Emons, per conto di Mondadori. ©Photographic Archive F. Català-Roca - Arxiu Històric del Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya. >> Questo audiobook in edizione integrale vi è offerto in esclusiva per Audible ed è disponibile solamente in formato audio digitale.
©2004 Mondadori (P)2017 Mondadori
The Midnight Palace
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In the heart of Calcutta lurks a dark mystery.... Set in Calcutta in the 1930s, The Midnight Palace begins on a dark night when an English lieutenant fights to save newborn twins Ben and Sheere from an unthinkable threat. Despite monsoon-force rains and terrible danger lurking around every street corner, the young lieutenant manages to get them to safety, but not without losing his own life.... Years later, on the eve of Ben and Sheere's 16th birthday, the mysterious threat reenters their lives. This time, it may be impossible to escape. With the help of their brave friends, the twins will have to take a stand against the terror that watches them in the shadows of the night - and face the most frightening creature in the history of the City of Palaces.
©2011 Carlos Ruiz Zafon (P)2011 Hachette Audio
Der Schatten des Windes
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Unaussprechliche Geheimnisse, unglückliche Lieben und dramatische Schicksale vor dem Hintergrund des Barcelona der 50er Jahre: Zu spanischen Klängen und dem Gemurmel der nächtlichen Großstadt entführt das Hörspiel in die geheimnisvolle Welt der Bibliotheken und vergessenen Bücher. Auf der Suche nach Julián Carax, dem geheimnisumwitterten Autor, verlieren sich die Schritte Daniels im undurchschaubaren Labyrinth der verwinkelten Gassen und verlassenen Paläste. Und nur eines ist sicher: Diese Geschichte wird nicht nur Daniel ein Leben lang begleiten... Das Stimmengewirr von Barcelona, das gedämpfte Raunen der Bibliotheken und die Stimmen schöner Frauen werden zum Hörerlebnis. Mit Matthias Schweighöfer als Daniel und Erzähler, Michael Habeck als Fermin Romero de Torres, Sylvester Groth als Julián Carax und Laín Coubert und vielen anderen.
©2003 Insel Verlag Frankfurt am Main (P)2005 Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
Le luci di settembre
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Estate 1937. In un faro sulla costa normanna i giovani Irene e Ismael scoprono l'oscuro segreto che avvolge la fabbrica di giocattoli Lazarus: un enigma che li unirà per sempre trascinandoli in un mondo labirintico di luci e ombre.
©2017 Mondadori (P)2020 Mondadori
Il principe della nebbia
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1943: il vento della guerra soffia impetuoso quando il padre di Max Carver decide di trasferire la famiglia sulla costa spagnola. Il luogo sembra protetto e tranquillo ma, appena arrivati, cominciano a succedere strani fenomeni: Max scopre un giardino disseminato di statue orribili, la sorella Alicia inizia a fare sogni inquietanti, compare una scatola piena di vecchi film che sembrano aprire una finestra sul passato, mentre l'orologio della stazione va all'indietro. E ci sono le voci, sempre più sinistre, che riguardano i precedenti proprietari della villa, e i racconti che accompagnano la misteriosa scomparsa del loro unico figlio. Quando un incidente colpisce la sua famiglia, Max è costretto, suo malgrado, a improvvisarsi detective. Assieme ad Alicia e al nuovo amico Roland, nipote dell'anziano custode del faro, inizia a indagare sull'oscuro naufragio di una nave che giace sui fondali della baia custodendo molti segreti.
©2017 Mondadori (P)2020 Mondadori
Marina
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In seinen freien Stunden streift der Internatsschüler Óscar Drai durch die verwunschenen Villenviertel Barcelonas und taucht ein in eine längst vergangene Zeit. Eines Tages trifft er auf ein junges Mädchen. Sie heißt Marina, und sie wird sein Leben für immer verändern. Gemeinsam werden die beiden in das düstere Geheimnis um den ehemals reichsten Mann Barcelonas gezogen. Bald befinden sie sich mitten in einem Albtraum aus Trauer, Wut und Größenwahn, der alles Glück zu zerstören droht. In unnachahmlicher Weise erzählt Carlos Ruiz Zafón die dramatische Geschichte eines jungen Mannes und einer jungen Liebe. Nur kurze Zeit vor seinem Welterfolg "Der Schatten des Windes" schuf er so ein fulminantes Meisterwerk, melancholisch, anrührend und knisternd vor Spannung. "Wir alle haben im Dachgeschoss der Seele ein Geheimnis unter Verschluss. Das hier ist das meine."
©2011 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin (P)2011 Argon Verlag GmbH, Berlin