Audio Book Review: Marina by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Release Date: July 22, 2014 Publisher: Hatchette Audio Format: Audio Length: 7 hours 30 minutes Narrator: Daniel Weyman Genre: Gothic Mystery Buy: Audible | Kindle | Paperback Synopsis: When Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona, no one knows his whereabouts for seven days and seven nights. His story begins when he meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of the city. She leads Oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last Sunday of each month. At exactly ten o'clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave. When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten postwar Barcelona--a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons--an reveals a dark secret that ...