by Carlos Ruiz Zafón; translated by Lucia Graves
Published by Penguin (2001)
ISBN 978-0143034902
Description:
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.
About the Author:
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist. Born in Barcelona
in 1964, he has lived in Los Angeles, California since 1994.
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