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Broad Strokes: Fermín's background as given in his crying confession in The Shadow of the Wind is vaguely similar to the one shown in this book in that it involves him being a spy and spending some time in prison, but otherwise it's drastically rewritten.Little exposition is given to Daniel and Bea Sempere, either, giving readers little to hold onto about either character unless they're already invested in them from having read Shadow of the Wind.

All There in the Manual: Although the introduction claims that the reader doesn't have to have read the other books in the series to understand it, little about Fermin's relationship with Martin makes sense unless you've read The Angel's Game.It was followed by The Labyrinth of Spirits. The novel, part of the tetralogy The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, is basically a large, rewritten flashback to Fermín's past, both expanding on and heavily retconning what we learned in The Shadow of the Wind, all inside the context of a frame narrative that's only partially wrapped up, ending the book on a clifhanger to be resolved in the next book of the series, breaking Zafón's tradition of writing books that could be read as self-contained stories. Daniel also discovers a nasty secret involving the mysterious former Minister of Culture Mauricio Valls and the death of his own mother. In the inevitable flashbacks, Fermín reveals what really transpired in all those years he was a prisoner of the Francoist order: his stay in the Montjuic Castle prison, his relationship with Salgado and the schizophrenic novelist David Martín, and his true relationship with the Sempere family. One bad day, however, a mysterious old man named Sebastián Salgado comes to leave Fermín a note from their past together in a fancy edition of The Count of Monte Cristo. The Prisoner of Heaven (originally El prisionero del cielo) is a 2011 novel by late Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafón.Īfter the events of The Shadow of the Wind, Daniel Sempere has settled into married life with Bea Aguilar and their son Julián is about to turn one.