marina  <b>carlos ruiz zafon&apos;s haunting gothic mystery, which has long been a cult classic in spain and is now an international bestseller.</b><br />"we all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul. this is mine."<br />fifteen-year-old oscar drai meets the strange marina while he&apos;s exploring an old quarter of barcelona. she leads oscar to a cemetery, where they watch a macabre ritual that occurs on the last sunday of each month. at exactly ten o&apos;clock in the morning, a woman shrouded in a black velvet cloak descends from her carriage to place a single rose on an unmarked grave.<br />when oscar and marina decide to follow her, they begin a journey that transports them to a forgotten postwar barcelona-a world of aristocrats and actresses, inventors and tycoons--and reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.