The Prisoner of Heaven.
A book that almost commands you to snuggle down, get comfortable and relax as you slip into that sumptuous world of brilliantly written literature.
This book sees a return to Sempere & Sons, the characters we first fell in love with in The Shadow of the Wind.
Well, maybe not everyone fell for the Semperes but I'll fall for anyone who takes me to The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. That labyrinthine underworld is a bookworms idea of heaven and the image of that one elusive book, destined to be yours alone to be loved and cherished? Well, it's everything I always imagined when I caressed the spines of my favourite books, my old friends.
In The Prisoner of Heaven we go back, and it is just as wonderful as I'd remembered.
The plot focuses on the Semperes close friend and employee Fermin Romero Del Torres just months before his wedding. The story is largely narrated by Fermin and his best friend, Daniel Sempere, as they piece together the reasons behind Fermins growing agitation and alarming weight loss in the run up to the ceremony.
The book covers old ground through new plots in an environment filled with vivid and somehow romantic images of post-war Barcelona narrated and featuring long lost and much loved characters.
It was fantastic. It lived up to heady heights of the first book, The Shadow in the Wind, and provided me with an insight which made me want to reread the unusual and supernatural book, The Angels Game.
Superb read, I thoroughly recommend it!
Enjoy!
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