When Fifteen-year-old Oscar Drai suddenly vanishes from his boarding school in Barcelona, no one knows his whereabouts for seven days and seven nights. His story begins when he meets the strange Marina while he's exploring an old quarter of the city. 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'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.

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--an reveals a dark secret that lies waiting in the mysterious labyrinth beneath the city streets.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon's haunting Marina has long been a cult classic in Spain and is now an international bestseller.

十五歲的奧斯卡．卓拉伊突然從巴賽隆納的寄宿學校失蹤了，整整七天七夜，完全下落不明。他在探索老城區時，遇見了神秘的瑪麗娜。此時，一切的故事才真正開始。瑪麗娜帶著奧斯卡前往一座墓園 ，觀看那裏進行的一場陰森恐怖儀式，那是每月最後一個星期日的慣例。早上十點鐘時，一位身裹黑色絲絨斗篷的女人走下馬車，將一朵玫瑰放在一個無名墓上。　　

奧斯卡與瑪琳娜決定尾隨這位神秘女子。他們從此踏上歷史旅程，重回被人遺忘的戰後巴塞隆納，那是一個屬於貴族與女伶、發明家與商場大亨的時代，揭開深藏於城街下方神秘迷宮的黑暗秘密。　　

卡洛斯．魯依斯．薩豐筆下的瑪麗娜令人久久不能忘懷，這部風靡西班牙已久的文學經典，如今已躍升為國際暢銷小說。