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Are you ready to plunge back into a world full of chimeras? Where what you see is not always what it really is...

Here, the ancient Barcelona of the 16th century is almost destroyed by a drop of a fantastic elixir brought from the East. A mysterious Italian tempts Cervantes to write a masterpiece that will remain unknown. A desperate and mysterious Barcelona lawyer plays chess on the souls of his opponents, always winning... except for the last time. An irresistibly attractive rich woman turns to the famous architect Gaudi with an almost fantastic and impossible request to build a colossal skyscraper in Manhattan. And an unknown guy falls in love with a strange girl who portends the end of the world...

Damned writers, visionary architects, switched identities, Barcelona's rich and poor, wizards and pirates, historical characters with fictional biographies that you want to believe as real, murderous philosophers and people in need of repentance... Welcome to the new - and, unfortunately, the last - book by the unsurpassed wizard of words Carlos Ruiz Safon.