- Magic, Brothers and sisters, Family life, Dead
In 1943, in a seaside town where their family has gone to be safe from war, thirteen-year-old Max Carver and sister, fifteen-year-old Alicia, with new friend Roland, face off against an evil magician who is striving to complete a bargain made before he died.
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- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- First published
- 1993
- Pages
- 219
- Publisher
- Planeta, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Heinemann
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- Spanish, English, French
- ISBN
- 9783596812721
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Barcelona, 25 de septiembre de 1964-Los Ángeles, 19 de junio de 2020) fue un novelista español. Su obra más famosa es *La sombra del viento,* ganadora de numerosos galardones, y que fue seleccionada en la lista confeccionada en 2007 por 81 escritores y críticos latinoamericanos y españoles entre los cien mejores libros en lengua española de los últimos 25 años. ---------- Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Barcelona, September 25, 1964 – Los Angeles, June 19, 2020) was a Spanish novelist. His most famous work is *The Shadow of the Wind*, winner of numerous awards, and which was selected in 2007 by 81 Latin American and Spanish writers and critics as one of the one hundred best books in
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