Literary Mystery
In post-war Barcelona, a boy chooses a forgotten novel from a secret library — and discovers someone has been destroying every copy of its author’s work.
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Few novels capture the feeling of being chosen by a book as vividly as this one. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is an image readers carry for years.
Beneath the atmosphere is a well-built mystery about obsession, authorship and the long shadow of the Spanish Civil War.
Pure reading pleasure — the kind of book people press into friends’ hands.
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