The City of Mist

Stories

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Narrated by: Daniel Weyman

“Ruiz Zafón’s visionary storytelling prowess is a genre unto itself.”—USA Today

Return to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits.

Bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón conceived of this collection of stories as an appreciation to the countless readers who joined him on the extraordinary journey that began with The Shadow of the Wind. Comprising eleven stories, most of them never before published in English, The City of Mist offers the reader compelling characters, unique situations, and a gothic atmosphere reminiscent of his beloved Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet.

The stories are mysterious, imbued with a sense of menace, and told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's inimitable voice. A boy decides to become a writer when he discovers that his creative gifts capture the attentions of an aloof young beauty who has stolen his heart. A labyrinth maker flees Constantinople to a plague-ridden Barcelona, with plans for building a library impervious to the destruction of time. A strange gentleman tempts Cervantes to write a book like no other, each page of which could prolong the life of the woman he loves. And a brilliant Catalan architect named Antoni Gaudí reluctantly agrees to cross the ocean to New York, a voyage that will determine the fate of an unfinished masterpiece.

Imaginative and beguiling, these and other stories in The City of Mist summon up the mesmerizing magic of their brilliant creator and invite us to come dream along with him.

Classic

Breathtaking. A catalogue of tales covering impressions over a lifetime from the fantastic to the reality of life.

outstanding! u

it's outstanding! It's got a language of its own. The language sings along wherever it goes.

Spooky Shorts

This fed my need for more of Carlos Ruiz Zafron’s writing. The narrator is a great pick for this read.

The genius of Zafron in short vignettes

New and familiar characters populate the mystical, and often dark, world envisioned by Zafron. The results are magical.

The elegance of the words.

Loved the stories which he presents in such a compassionate manner. The anticipation of the end leaves me looking forward to reading more.