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In 1943 Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast. They move into a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife but abandoned when their son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Roland: A young boy who lives with his grandfather in the lighthouse who becomes Max's friend.
- Max Carver: 13 year old boy, protagonist
- Alicia: Max's older sister, love intrest of Roland
- Jacob Fleischmann: A young boy who vanished years before, presumed dead
- Andrea Carver: Add a description of this character.
- Dr. Richard Fleischmann: Jacob's father
- Irina Carver: age 8, Max's younger sister
- Victor Kray: lighthouse keeper, Roland's grandfather
- Maximilian Carver: father, eccentric watchmaker and inventor
- Dr. Cain: The creepy antagonist.
- Skolimoski
- Angus
- Darius
- Eva Gray
- Robin
- Philip
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“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by. He understood the meaning of those words the first time he saw the sea.”
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“Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.”
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“It's like when you decide to cheat because you know you can't win. Usually you're found out and you can't cheat anymore. But sometimes, the cheater gets away with it. And if, instead of playing with dice or cards, the game consists of playing with life and death, then the cheater turns into someone very dangerous indeed.”
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“My father says a hunch is your brain's way of taking a shortcut to the truth.”
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“In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.”
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“As his father liked to say, in small towns news traveled at the speed of boredom.”
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“Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go; you don’t need to take them with you,”
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some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.
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resignation, a time of waiting. Throughout my life I’ve known quite a few people who have become trapped in one of these stages and have never managed to get beyond them. It’s a terrible thing.”
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“That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.”
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For the first time in his life, he felt that time was going faster than he wished it to and he could no longer take refuge in his dreams.
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Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.
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In an infinite universe, there were too many things that escaped human understanding.
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Teenage girls, thought Max, were a mystery of evolution not even Copernicus himself could fathom.
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As his father liked to say, in small towns news traveled at the speed of boredom.
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For a while he listened to the thousand tiny noises a house makes when it thinks nobody is listening.
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First Sentence edit
Max would never forget that faraway summer when, almost by chance, he discovered magic.
Table of Contents edit
Capítulo uno -> Capítulo dieciocho
Epílogo
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 3 in La Trilogía de la Niebla. (standard series)
Followed by The Midnight Palace.
This book is in NPR Summer Books 2010. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Lucia Graves (Translator)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Spanish
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: Spain
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 221
Publisher: Add the publisher.
Country: Spain
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: 221
Awards edit
- Premio Edebé (1993)
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