Bath is charming, walkable, and steeped in literary romance. 10. Barcelona, Spain — The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon If ever a novel made a love letter of its setting, it's this one.

“The City of Mist” by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is a collection of short stories with unique characters, mysteries, and dreams for us to peruse. In the first story the young narrator, David Martin, meets and ...

STORIES: The City of Mist, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Text, $29.99 When Carlos Ruiz Zafon died in 2020 at the age of 55, it was more than a tragically early demise. Beyond the range and force of his work ...

Long before his manifestly unfair death from cancer in 2020 at the age of 55, the Spanish conjurer of wonder and mystery Carlos Ruiz Zafón was already thinking about what would happen with his ...

From Alison Moore's darkly comic mystery to The City Of Mist by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, a revenge tale from Julia Dahl and Hilma Wolitzer's latest, this week's best new fiction ...

The late Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s collection of short stories, The City of Mist, has gone to Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Federico Andornino, publishing director at W&N, acquired UK and Commonwealth ...

TEHRAN - A Persian translation of Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s bestselling novel “Shadow of the Wind”, translated by Ali Sanavi, has arrived in Iranian bookstores. The book has been published by ...

Ruiz Zafon was born in Barcelona in 1964, the son of Fina Zafon and Justo Ruiz, an insurance broker. His parents encouraged the young Carlos, who soon became a voracious reader and keen writer.

MADRID — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, whose wildly popular 2001 novel, “The Shadow of the Wind,” led to three sequels and made him one of the world’s most beloved Spanish authors, has died. He was 55.