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- Authors: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Language: English
- Genre: Contemporary Literary Fiction
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(post c 1945)
SUMMARY: The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in
Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy’s quest through the
secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose
book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing
its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find
that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child,
Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the
secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s
guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world,
waiting for someone who will care about them again.
Daniel’s father coaxes
him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it
is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel
he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to
find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has
been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has
written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows
it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s
darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love.
And before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian
Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly. As with all
astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for
comparisons-The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo
Pérez-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?-but in the
end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice.
As one
leading Spanish reviewer wrote, “The originality of Ruiz Zafón’s voice is
bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind
announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature.” An uncannily absorbing
historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the
mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the
storyteller’s art. Translated by Lucia Graves.
The SHADOW of the WIND By Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Translated by Lucia Graves
Copyright 2001
Version 1.0
THE CEMETERY OF FORGOTTEN BOOKS
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten
Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked
through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn
poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.
‘Daniel, you mustn’t tell anyone what you’re about to see today,’ my father
warned. ‘Not even your friend Tomas. No one.’
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