The Shadow of the Wind Paperback – Illustrated, February 1, 2005 by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Brand: Penguin Books

Color: Multicolor

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• Great product!

Format: Illustrated

Package Dimensions: 31x213x410

Number Of Pages: 487

Release Date: 25-01-2005

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The New York Times bestseller“The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice)“One gorgeous read.” —Stephen KingBarcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets–an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.
Review
“Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up
The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should.”
—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

“Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show.”
—T
he New York Times Book Review“Wonderous . . . masterful . . .
The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.”
—Entertainment Weekly (Editor’s Choice)

“One gorgeous read.”
—Stephen King”
The Shadow of the Wind will keep you up nights—and it’ll be time well spent. Absolutely marvelous.” —
Kirkus
(starred review)

About the Author
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was one of the world’s most read and best-loved writers. His work has been translated into more than forty languages and published around the world, garnering numerous international prizes and reaching millions of readers. He was the author of
The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel’s Game, The Prince of Mist, The Midnight Palace, The Prisoner of Heaven, and, most recently,
The City of Mist (2021), published posthumously
. He died in 2020.

Lucia Graves is the author and translator of many works and has overseen Spanish-language editions of the poetry of her father, Robert Graves.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. My first thought on waking was to tell my best friend about the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Tomás Aguilar was a classmate who devoted his free time and his talent to the invention of wonderfully ingenious contraptions of dubious practicality, like the aerostatic dart or the dynamo spinning top. I pictured us both, equipped with flashlights and compasses, uncovering the mysteries of those bibliographic catacombs. Who better than Tomás to share my secret? Then, remembering my promise, I decided that circumstances advised me to adopt what in detective novels is termed a different modus operandi. At noon I approached my father to quiz him about the book and about Julián Carax-both world famous, I assumed. My plan was to get my hands on his complete works and read them all by the end of the week. To my surprise, I discovered that my father, a natural-born librarian and a walking lexicon of publishers’ catalogs and oddities, had never heard of The Shadow of the Wind or Julián Carax. Intrigued, he examined the printing history on the back of the title page for clues.
“It says here that this copy is part of an edition of twenty-five hundred printed in Barcelona by Cabestany Editores, in June 1936.”
“Do you know the publishing house?”
“It closed down years ago. But, wait, this is not the original. The first edition came out in November 1935 but was printed in Paris….Published by Galiano & Neuval. Doesn’t ring a bell.”
“So is this a translation?”
“It doesn’t say so. From what I can see, the text must be the original one.”
“A book in Spanish, first published in France?”
“