The Angel's Game (61 page)

“Will I remember one day?”

“One day.”

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I had never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she draws her last breath in my arms and I take her with me to the open sea, where the deep currents flow, to sink with her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.

Doubleday

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, organizations, places, events, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Translation copyright © 2009 by Lucia Graves

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Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc.,
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Originally published in Spain as
El Juego del Ángel
by Planeta, Barcelona, in 2008. Copyright © 2008 by Dragonworks, S.L.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964–
  [Juego del ángel. English]
  The angel’s game / by Carlos Ruiz Zafón; translated by Lucia Graves. —1st U.S. ed.
      p. cm.
 1. Journalists—Spain—Barcelona—Fiction. 2. Authors—Spain—Barcelona—Fiction. 3. Antiquarian booksellers—Spain—Barcelona—Fiction. 4. Barcelona (Spain)—Fiction. I. Title.
PQ6668.U49J8413 2008
863′.64—dc22     2008053650

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