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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.
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Mothers and sons, Verschollenheit, Widowers, Fiction, Autor, Books, Buch, Young men, Faszination, Rare books, Junge, Antiquarian booksellers, Antiquarian booksellers in fiction, Books in fiction, Rare books in fiction, Young men in fiction, Mothers and sons in fiction, Widowers in fiction, novel, Roman, Literary fiction, Spanish: Adult Fiction, Detective and mystery stories, out-of-print books, Spanish novelists, Novela de misterio, Viudos, Libros raros, Madres e hijos, Jóvenes (Hombres), Ficción, Libros, Libreros anticuarios, Spanish fiction, Fiction, suspense, Authors, fiction, Barcelona (spain), fiction, Booksellers and bookselling, fiction, Noveller, Mystery fiction, Books and reading, Social conditions, nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2009-07-12, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fortellinger, Forteljingar, Fiction, thrillers, general, Spanish Detective and mystery stories, Jeunes hommes, Romans, nouvelles, Livres rares, Jóvenes (Varones), NovelaShowing 11 featured editions. View all 93 editions?
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A Sombra Do Vento - The Shadow of the Wind -
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Der Schatten des Windes
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Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí, Daniel Sempere encuentra un libro maldito que cambia el rumbo de su vida y le arrastra a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. La Sombra del Viento es un misterio literario ambientado en la Barcelona de la primera mitad del siglo xx, desde los últimos esplendores del Modernismo hasta las tinieblas de la posguerra.
Aunando las técnicas del relato de intriga y suspense, la novela histórica y la comedia de costumbres, La Sombra del Viento es sobre todo una trágica historia de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros cuya intriga se mantiene hasta la última página.
Todavía recuerdo aquel amanecer en que mi padre me llevó por primera vez a visitar El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados
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