<b>From the bestselling author of<i><i> The Shadow of the Wind </i></i>comes the intriguing mystery that started it all...</b><i><i><br /><br /></i>"We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. This is mine."</i><br />Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of Barcelona. 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. <br />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 lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets. <br />Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting <i>Marina</i> has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.