The Angel’s Game
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From the leader of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes a riveting new masterpiece about like, literature, and treachery.
In this powerful, labyrinthian thriller, David Martín is a pulp fiction writer struggling to stay afloat. Holed up in a haunting abandoned mansion in the heart of Barcelona, he furiously taps out tale after tale, apt increasingly desperate and frustrated. Thus, when he is approached by a mysterious publisher offering a book deal that seems nearly too excellent to be real, David leaps at the chance. But as he starts the work, and after a visit to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, he realizes that there is a tie between his book and the shadows that surround his dilapidated home and that the publisher may be hiding a few troubling secrets of his own. Once again, Ruiz Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic Barcelona and makes a breathtaking tale of intrigue, romance, and tragedyAmazon.com Review
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From master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafón, leader of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game–a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous scenery of obsession, in literature and in like.
“The whole of Barcelona stretched out at my feet and I wanted to judge that, when I opened persons windows, its streets would whisper tales to me, secrets I could capture on paper and narrate to whomever cared to listen…”
In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, 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 weird 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 like. Close to despair, David receives a letter from a ascetic 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 chance, and perhaps more. But as David starts the work, he realizes that there is a tie between his haunting book and the shadows that surround his home.
Once again, Zafón takes us into a dark, gothic universe first seen in The Shadow of the Wind and makes 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 tale.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón on The Angel’s Game
Years ago, when I started effective on my fifth novel, The Shadow of the Wind, I ongoing toying around with the thought of making a fictional universe that would be articulated through four interconnected tales in which we would meet some of the same characters at different times in their lives, and see them from different perspectives where many plots and subplots would tie around in knots for the reader to untie. It sounds to some extent pretentious, but my thought was to add a twist to the tale and provide the reader with what I hoped would be a stimulating and playful reading experience. Since these books were, in part, about the world of literature, books, reading and language, I thought it would be appealing to use the different novels to explore persons themes through different angles and to add new layers to the meaning of the tales.
At first I thought this could be done in one book, but soon I realized it would make Shadow of the Wind a monster novel, and in many ways, ruin the structure I was trying to design for it. I realized I would have to write four different novels. They would be stand-alone tales that could be read in any order. I saw them as a Chinese box of tales with four doors of entry, a labyrinth of fictions that could be explored in many directions, entirely or in parts, and that could provide the reader with an additional layer of enjoyment and play. These novels would have a central axis, the thought of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, set against the backdrop of a highly stylized, gothic and mysterious Barcelona. Since each novel was going to be complex and hard to write, I chose to take one at a time and see how the conduct experiment evolved on its own in an organic way.
It all sounds very intricate, but it is not. At the end of the day, these are just tales that share a universe, a tone and some central themes and characters. You don’t need to care or know about any of this stuff to delight in them. One of the fun things about this process was it allowed me to give each book a different personality. Thus, if Shadow of the Wind is the nice, excellent girl in the family tree, The Angel’s Game would be the wicked gothic stepsister. Some readers regularly question me if The Angel’s Game is a prequel or a sequel. The answer is: none of these things, and all of the above. Essentially The Angel’s Game is a new book, a stand-alone tale that you can fully delight in and know on its own. But if you have already read The Shadow of the Wind, or you choose to read it afterwards, you’ll find new meanings and relations that I hope will enhance your experience with these characters and their adventures.
The Angel’s Game has many games inside, one of them with the reader. It is a book designed to make you step into the storytelling process and become a part of it. In additional words, the wicked, gothic chick wants your blood. Beware. Maybe, lacking realizing, I finished up writing a monster book after all… Don’t say I didn’t warn you, courageous reader. I’ll see you on the additional side. –Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Having read Shadow of the Wind and Angel’s Game back to back, I was very disappointed. Shadow of the Wind was an incredible novel that doesn’t place your mind too quickly. What threw me the most and what I couldn’t get past was how the father and son had really different lives in Angel’s Game than in Shadow of the Wind. I reflect if you are going to have the same characters in the same book shop, then their lives should be consistent with what the leader has already introduced. Zafon is certainly an incredible writer and gets you enthralled in the tale, but I just could not get past the different lives the Sempres led in Shadow of the Wind.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I shold have listened to the additional reviewers who advised people to save their time and not bother with this book. Others wrote the ending leaves you hanging, is ambiguous, and fails to tie things up. I thought if I read it, I would know the meaning, that I would get the same feeling I did when I read Shadow of the Wind…well, I did not grasp the huge meaning, I did not feel gripped by the tale, and I should have heeded the advice to skip this book. The first 2/3 is excellent, then it becomes a blood bath that is hard to follow. Save your time, save your money.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
“The Shadow of the Wind” is lacking doubt one of the finest literary achievements in recent history. Sublime in Spanish, it is possibly even surpassed by the remarkable translation of Lucia Graves, and “The Angel’s Game”, in Spanish, is as rich, perfectly written, original and thought-provoking as its predecessor. We look forwards to the English-language version, with its incomparable use of language.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I got this book hoping it would be as excellent as its predecessor, my favorite book, While Zafon holds the same brilliant language and prose in his book, there was too much “fluff” in it; towards the middle 200 pages, it just got repetitive, was moving nowhere and could probably have been deleted. Also, the ending was very confusing, nearly unanswered and overall, abrupt, I feel like this would be a better book if Zafon spent more time on the ending; it seemed rushed with small to no explanation/resolution on the mysteries that the rest of the book holds. this probably would have been a better place to focus on rather than the nearly unneeded middle chapters. If you are reading this book as a comparison to the first, then you are in for a dissapointment; It lacks the compelling character development and plot twists that the first book has so much of. In the end I guess it was worth reading Zafon’s fantastic descriptive/creative writing and feel of an ancient gothic novel, but in terms of the tale itself, theres not much to like.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5