The City of Mist

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, go back in time to the fabled Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

This anthology of stories was designed by best-selling novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón as a way to thank the innumerable fans who accompanied him on the incredible trip that started with The Shadow of the Wind. The City of Mist, which consists of eleven stories—the most of which have never been published in English—offers the reader intriguing people, unusual circumstances, and a gothic ambiance reminiscent of his adored Cemetery of Forgotten Books quartet.

The stories are told with the warmth, wit, and humor of Zafón's unique style, and they are intriguing and tinged with a feeling of foreboding. When a boy finds that a distant young woman who has captured his heart is interested in him because to his artistic abilities, he makes the decision to pursue writing as his career. After fleeing Constantinople to plague-ridden Barcelona, a labyrinth creator has plans to construct a library that will not be destroyed by the passage of time. Cervantes is tempted by an eccentric man to create a novel unlike any other, with the promise that the woman he loves would live forever on every page. And Antoni Gaudí, a talented architect from Catalonia, grudgingly consents to travel to New York, a journey that will decide the future of an unfinished masterpiece.

These and other tales in The City of Mist, imaginative and captivating, evoke the enchanting charm of their genius author and urge us to dream alongside him.

Blanca and the leaving

Unnamed

A young Barcelona native

Flame-rose

A story for Christmas, The Prince of Parnassus

Alicia in the morning

Men in gray Manhattan Kiss Gaudí

A two-minute catastrophe