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THE ANGEL’S GAME by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It must be extremely difficult for an author to write a brilliant, literary bestseller and then have to deal with the expectations of a worldwide audience waiting for him/her to do as well, or even better, with the next novel. I congratulate Carlos Ruiz Zafon on his latest offering, The Angel’s Game, a superb work of fiction where magical realism meets gothic horror and romance. Ruiz Zafon pays homage to the art of writing, and to such authors as Charles Dickens, who wrote Great Expectations, a book which plays an important role here, as well as to Charlotte BrontГ«, with her Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, the couple who gave “Gothic” its name. The reader enters a world which on the surface seems normal, however, there are many elements at play which are magical, illogical and often disturbing.
June 15, 2009
Tags: 1920s, Barcelona, Gothic, Writing Life Posted in: Award Winning Author, Beyond Reality, Literary, Mystery/Suspense, Spain 
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