Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- Fiction
- Vintage Espanol 
- ISBN: 9780307455376
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Rita Aurora Puig

This book keeps the reader in intense suspense from beginning to end. It is the prequel to La sombra del viento. The reader enters the streets of an ancient and extremely mysterious Spain. It provides an intellectual mystery in which a writer sells his eternal soul in exchange for fame in this world.