THE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This enthralling novel, inspired
by the 2006 film, illustrates that fantasy is the sharpest tool to explore the
terrors and miracles of the human heartYou shouldn't come in here. You could get
lost. It has happened before. I'll tell you the story one day, if you want to
hear it. In fairy tales, there are men and there are wolves, there are beasts
and dead parents, there are girls and forests. Ofelia knows all this, like any
young woman with a head full of stories. And she sees right away what the
Capitan is, in his immaculate uniform, boots and gloves, smiling: a wolf.But
nothing can prepare her for the fevered reality of the Capitan's eerie house, in
the midst of a dense forest which conceals many things: half-remembered stories
of lost babies; renegade resistance fighters hiding from the army; a labyrinth;
beasts and fairies.There is no one to keep Ofelia safe as the labyrinth beckons
her into her own story, where the monstrous and the human are inextricable,
where myths pulse with living blood .