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    "title": "Marina",
    "subtitle": "Carlos Ruiz Zafon",
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    "annotation": "<P>\nFrom the author of SHADOW OF THE WIND comes MARINA, where a mysterious ritual in a cemetery leads two teenagers on a journey into Barcelona's forgotten past. It is a journey that takes them to the heights of a forgotten, postwar-Barcelona society, of now aged or departed aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and into the depths of the city's mysterious underground of labyrinthine sewers, corrupt policemen, beggars' hovels, and criminal depravity.\n</P>",
    "description": "<p><span>In May 1980, fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in the old quarter of Barcelona. For seven days and nights no one knows his whereabouts. . . .</span><br /><br /><span>His story begins in the heart of old Barcelona, when he meets Marina and her father Germ&aacute;n Blau, a portrait painter. Marina takes Oscar to a cemetery to watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the fourth Sunday of each month. At 10 a.m. precisely a coach pulled by black horses appears. From it descends a woman dressed in black, her face shrouded, wearing gloves, holding a single rose. She walks over to a gravestone that bears no name, only the mysterious emblem of a black butterfly with open wings.</span><br /><br /><span>When Oscar and Marina decide to follow her they begin a journey that will take them to the heights of a forgotten, post-war Barcelona, a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons; and a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.</span></p>",
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    "publication_date_first": "2013-09-26",
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