Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the author of six novels that have sold over 15 million copies worldwide, including The Shadow of the Wind, the most successful novel in Spanish publishing history after Don Quixote. His latest novel is The Angel’s Game. Before chatting about his life and work onstage, he sat down for our In The Green Room Q&A.
Rick Kleffel is a book reviewer and broadcaster for National Public Radio, whose work has been heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition and other nationally syndicated programs. He’s written for The San Francisco Chronicle and the British Publication Interzone. His weekly hour-long radio show of author interviews from NPR affiliate KUSP is called The Agony Column. Below, Kleffel told us a bit more about himself before taking the stage to interview Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
Three-dimensional movies and multiplayer video games may be flashy, but, according to Rick Kleffel, one technology has them beat — the age-old mechanism of reading. Reading, he said, is “a primal force in which we the readers collaborate with the authors to create characters, adventures, empathy and memories not unlike those of our real lives.”
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s latest novel, The Angel’s Game, follows a struggling pulp fiction writer approached by a mysterious publisher with a suspiciously good book deal. Zafón, whose work has been translated into over 40 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide, visits Zócalo on May 24 to talk about fiction in a global age. Below, an excerpt from The Angel’s Game.
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