Title : The Lights of September - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Book
Summary :
The final part of a worldwide successful trilogy by the master of the Spanish Gothic novel.
1937. After her husband's death leaves her without an income, Simone Sauvelle agrees to leave Paris to take a job as a private secretary in Normandy. Lazare Jann, her employer, is a brilliant toy inventor. He lives on a huge property with his very ill wife, who hasn't left her bed for twenty years. Passionately in love with her, he personally cares for her. Simone Sauvelle, her fifteen-year-old daughter Irène, and Dorian, her young son, are immediately captivated by Lazarus's great kindness. They also fall under the spell of Cravenmoore, his extraordinary home. Composed of countless rooms and corridors that fade into darkness, it is populated by puppets that seem to lead independent lives. Hannah, Lazarus's young servant, quickly becomes Irène's friend, to whom she introduces Ismaël, her handsome cousin. And very naturally the two teenagers fall in love with each other, while a sweet friendship brings Lazarus and Simone together. It is then that a criminal force takes possession of Cravenmoore, as if love and affection were unbearable for him. A shadow blacker than the darkest corners, it kills Hannah, seeks to murder Irene and Ishmael, attacks Simone, Dorian and Lazarus. Why does it manifest so much jealousy and hatred? And what are its motivations? By finding in an abandoned lighthouse the diary of a young woman who disappeared years before, Irene and Ishmael gradually unravel the mystery of this desperate force. And it is in an isolated room, at the end of a long corridor guarded by puppets possessed by a homicidal madness, near a woman forgotten by the world for twenty years, that the two teenagers must go to track down the truth.
- EAN: 9782221122907
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