The City of Mist

‘This short story collection is a posthumous parting gift from Ruiz Zafón to his millions of fans. The whole point of his oeuvre, so perfectly realised in his Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, is that he thickly layers gothic Barcelona detail on to tragic, romantic and mysterious narratives…With much-loved places and characters from that series making fleeting reappearances, it’s a fitting coda to his life and world.’ * Observer *
‘The players on Zafón’s stage are driven by lonely aspirations, audacious ideas, spontaneous acts of self-sacrifice and heroism, along with enough Machiavellian mischief to thread a tapestry of human frailties and failings to span several centuries…Vale Carlos Ruiz Zafón.’ * Ian McFarlane, Canberra Times *
‘The last work of the outstanding Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón…There is a melancholy to all of these [stories] that only adds to the sadness that Zafón did not have the chance to develop any of them into novels. But what is contained here is more than worth the price of admission.’ * SA Weekend *

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964-2020) was the author of eight novels, including the internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet- The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, The Prisoner of Heaven and The Labyrinth of the Spirits. His work, which also includes prizewinning young-adult novels, has been translated into more than fifty languages and published across the globe, garnering numerous awards and reaching millions of readers.

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