دانلود کتاب The City of Mist نوشته Carlos Ruiz Zafon

مجموعه داستان کوتاه انگلیسی

نویسنده:

کارلوس روئیث ثافون – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

نام فارسی:

شهر مه

ناشر:

HARPER – PERENNIAL

سال نشر:

۲۰۲۱

زبان:

انگلیسی

ترجمه به انگلیسی:

Lucia Graves

فرمت کتاب:

EPUB

درباره کتاب The City of Mist

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.

Blanca and the departure
Nameless
A young lady from Barcelona
Rose of fire
The prince of Parnassus
a Christmas tale
Alicia, at dawn
Men in grey
Kiss
Gaudí in Manhattan
Two-minute apocalypse

جملاتی از کتاب The City of Mist

“We don’t betray the ones that want to drown us, but the ones that reach out to us, if nothing, just because we don’t admit we owe them gratitude.”

“The minister’s gratitude had earned me a first-class ticket and the velvet sanctuary of a private compartment. Even in those dark days the last thing lost among professionals was courtesy.”

“Those were the days when Barcelona newspapers were steeped in reports warning that people were being killed in the streets. Unions for hired gunmen were doing well. Life was still as worthless as ever, but death had never been so cheap.”

“Then I smiled to myself and, although it was just for a few seconds, I became aware that for the first time in my life I was happy, and that after tasting that poison my existence would never be the same again.”

“Hunger, unlike Spaniards, has no pride and is brimming with perseverance,’ suggested Cervantes.”

“When she saw me her face lit up and she smiled, making me instantly forget the endless days of misery I’d spent trying to find her. I sat down next to her.”

“Every afternoon, when we parted, I walked back home dreaming about the moment when I would rescue her from that existence marked by absences, from that night visitor who scared her, from that pampered life that stole the light from her with every passing day. Every afternoon I told myself that I wasn’t going to forget her and that, so long as I remembered her, I’d be able to save her.”

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