Summary
Carlos Ruiz Zafon: The Shadow of the Wind
*the book has a dedication
In the mid-forties, a Barcelona bookseller takes his ten-year-old son Daniel to the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books" - a secret Barcelona bookstore. In the place where forgotten books, forbidden books are kept - books that have been swallowed by time in one way or another. The boy will choose the book "Shadow of the Wind"... And the book will choose him. The novel by the unknown writer Julien Carax is the only extant copy. All the others have been mysteriously burned in recent years, just like Carax's other novels. Daniel will read his exclusive, last copy "while the heart is still young and the mind is pure". The novel will completely occupy him. For the next ten years, he will explore the life of an "incredibly unsuccessful" writer. Nobody seems to know anything about him anymore. Carax's novels failed commercially. He allegedly engaged in a duel at the Paris cemetery of Pere Lachaise. Some said that he died and that his body was placed in an unmarked grave. The more optimistic ones claimed that he died later in Barcelona in the greatest misery. In the next ten years, Daniel's life will be completely intertwined with the fate of an unknown writer.
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