Weidenfeld & Nicolson and the Orion Publishing Group are delighted to announce the acquisition of a major new novel from the bestselling author Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The Prisoner of Heaven, which is being published in Spain by Planeta today, will be released in hardcover in the UK on 21 June 2012 and is the third in the cycle of novels that began with The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game.
The novel returns to the world of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and the Sempere & Sons bookshop, which Carlos Ruiz Zafón first wrote about in The Shadow of the Wind. It begins one year after the close of The Shadow of the Wind when a mysterious stranger enters Sempere & Sons, looking for a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the author of six novels, including The Shadow of the Wind and The Angel's Game. His work has been published in more than forty languages, and honoured with numerous international awards. He divides his time between Barcelona and Los Angeles.The Shadow of the Wind is an international phenomenon which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. It was first published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2004 and was a Richard & Judy Best Read. It has sold 1.5 million copies in the UK alone. The novel’s critical and commercial success led readers, booksellers and critics to coin a new word: Zafónmania.
The Angel's Game (published in the UK by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in 2009) was the fastest selling novel ever in Spain, and was an instant Sunday Times bestseller in the UK.
