The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

8	Listal rating

Manufacturer : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Release date : 1 February 2005
ISBN-10 : 0143034901 | ISBN-13 : 9780143034902

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Barcelona, 1945?A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax?s other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone has been s ... (more)

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"The Shadow of the Wind"

Posted : 1 year, 9 months ago at Feb 25 7:33

“The Shadow of the Wind” by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, which was translated by Lucia Graves. First, a quick description of the book, thanks to Amazon.Com and Publishers Weekly. --- The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, “The Shadow of the Wind”, by Julián Carax. The novel is rare, the author obscure, and rumors tell of a horribly disfigured man who has been burning every copy he can find of Carax’s novels. The man calls himself Laín Coubert - the name of the devil in one of Carax’s novels. As he grows up, Daniel’s fascination with the mysterious Carax links him to a blind femme fatale with a “porcelain gaze,” Clara Barceló; another fan, a leftist jack-of-all-trades, Fermín Rom...Read more

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