{"id":7246,"date":"2011-11-18T15:32:33","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T23:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=7246"},"modified":"2011-11-18T15:32:33","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T23:32:33","slug":"cover-art-synopsis-the-prisoner-of-heaven-by-carlos-ruiz-zafon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/art\/cover-art\/cover-art-synopsis-the-prisoner-of-heaven-by-carlos-ruiz-zafon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Art & Synopsis | THE PRISONER OF HEAVEN by Carlos Ruiz Zafon"},"content":{"rendered":"\"THE<\/a>\n

The first thing you’ll notice, of course, is that the title Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s latest novel is El Prisionero del Cielo<\/em> (or The Prisoner of Heaven<\/em>, for those not versed in Spanish, like myself), which points to the novel and its author’s Spanish heritage. I’ll certainly post the English cover when it is finally announced (as I’m sure it will be, given the enormous success of its predecessor, The Shadow of the Wind<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Luckily, thanks to Mihai at Dark Wolf Fantasy Reviews<\/a>, we also have a translated synopsis for the novel:<\/p>\n

Barcelona, 1957. Daniel Sempere and his friend Ferm\u00edn, the heroes of \u201cThe Shadow of the Wind\u201d are back on a new adventure to face the greatest challenge of their lives. Just when everything begins to smile on them, a disturbing character visits the Sempere\u2019s bookshop and threatens to reveal a terrible secret which lay buried for two decades in the dark memory of the city.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Zafon has been upfront about his plans to write four novels based around The Cemetery of Lost Books, first discovered by reader in the author’s first adult novel, The Shadow of the Wind<\/em> (REVIEW<\/a>), each of which stands alone while adding to an overall narrative arc. Zafon followed The Shadow of the Wind<\/em> with a prequel, The Angel’s Game<\/em> (REVIEW<\/a>), which followed an almost entirely new cast of characters and was set several decades earlier. I expected that trend to continue with the third and fourth volumes in the tetralogy, but instead of a new set of characters, we’re returning to Daniel Sempere, the immensely likeable protagonist on The Shadow of the Wind<\/em>. The Angel’s Game<\/em> was a fine novel, but suffered from many issues that its predecessor did not; hopefully the return of familiar faces and storylines will help Zafon return to the form I expect of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first thing you’ll notice, of course, is that the title Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s latest novel is El Prisionero del Cielo (or The Prisoner of Heaven, for those not versed in Spanish, like myself), which points to the novel and its author’s Spanish heritage. I’ll certainly post the English cover when it is finally announced… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cover-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n