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A young boy encounters a mysterious girl who sweeps him off on an adventure of a lifetime. Marina is a novel by the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon. Summary of the Book A fifteen year old boy vanishes from his boarding school. This event rocks old Barcelona, for the boy is nowhere to be seen for seven days and seven nights. The boy meets Marina and her father, a portrait painter. The girl takes him to witness a strange ritual in a cemetery, one that occurs on the fourth Sunday of every month. The ritual involves a strange woman who comes to the cemetery in a coach drawn by black horses. She walks over to a gravestone without a name, marked only by the strange emblem of a black butterfly with open wings. What secrets does this grave hide and who is this strange and macabre woman? The young boy and Marina decide to follow her, and in doing so, they begin a dangerous and enthralling journey. About Carlos Ruiz Zafon Carlos Ruiz Zafon is a Spanish novelist known for writing The Prince of Mist and The Shadow of the Wind.