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Frankenstein meets The Shadow of the Wind in a Gothic thriller set
in the diabolical city of fin-de-siecle Barcelona. Daniel Amat has
left Spain and all that happened there behind him. Having just
achieved a brilliant role in Ancient Languages at Oxford University
and an even more advantageous engagement, the arrival of a letter -
a demand - stamped Barcelona comes like a cold hand from behind. He
arrives back in that old, labyrinthine and near-mythic city a few
days before the great 1888 World Fair, amid dread whispers of
murders - the injuries reminiscent of an ancient curse, and bearing
signs of the genius 16th century anatomist, Vesalius. Daniel is
soon pulled into the depths of the crime, and eventually into the
tunnels below Barcelona, where his own dark past and the future of
science are joined in a terrible venture - to bring the secret of
Vesalius to life. Gothic and gripping, this historical thriller
makes of Barcelona a diabolical character - emerging out of the
dark into a new electrical age, aflame with spirit, superstition
and science. Published in eighteen countries, Jordi Llobregat's
bestselling first novel mixes a passionate setting and cryptic
mystery into a genre-crossing phenomenon.
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