Published in 2000, "The Angel's Game" is not only a thrilling mystery but also a love letter to literature and the city of Barcelona. The story centers around David Gómez, a young and aspiring writer who, in 1920s Barcelona, becomes entangled in a mysterious project proposed by the enigmatic and reclusive Julian Carax. Carax, a writer of some renown, commissions David to write a novel that would be a shadow or echo of his own unfinished work, essentially creating a literary doppelganger.
Karlos Ruis Safon (Carlos Ruiz Zafón) is a Spanish novelist best known for The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series; Igra anđela (The Angel’s Game) is the second novel in that sequence, first published in Spanish in 2008 as El juego del ángel. The book is a Gothic, metafictional literary thriller set in 1920s–1930s Barcelona and follows David Martín, a young writer drawn into a Faustian bargain with a mysterious publisher. Themes include obsession, authorship, memory, the power of stories, and the city as character. karlos ruis safon igra andjela 37pdf