Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Éjféli palace

Calcutta, the last days of May 1932: at the end of the hottest month ever, snow falls on the city of palaces. But before that, on the shores of the Bay of Bengal, which is covered by densely falling snowflakes, a fiery, sparking, flaming, runaway train - with screaming children in its windows - gallops through the night streets, aiming straight for St. Patrick's Orphanage, so that, celebrating their sixteenth birthday, the to destroy the members of the Society of the Coming, a secret brotherhood that is about to come into force. The locomotive is controlled by a fire demon who, with his evil, plants the seeds of terror in the hearts of the townspeople. But the orphans, Ben, Sheere, Isobel, Siraj and the others, were carved from hard wood, and for the sake of their future, they begin to investigate their mysterious past in order to confront the dark shadow that is bidding for their souls.
Ejféli palato is the second volume of the Mist trilogy by the world-famous Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafón, who passed away young this year. It is independent of the first volume in terms of content, but, like the first novel The Prince of Mist, which is associatively related to it, it is not without its mystical legends. mysterious adventures. Which can then be passed on in books consisting of invisible pages written by the secret whispers of dead souls.