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The Shadow of the Wind (Hardcover)

By: Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Author) and Lucia Graves (Translator)

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"[A] yeasty Dickensian romance....THE SHADOW OF THE WIND will keep you up nights--and it'll be time well spent. Absolutely marvelous."

"[A] sprawling magic show, exasperatingly tricky and mostly wonderful....The melodrama and complications of SHADOW, expertly translated by Lucia Graves, can approach excess, though it's a pleasurable and exceedingly well-managed excess. We are taken on a wild ride...that executes its hairpin bends with breathtaking lurches."

"Zafon writes with power and clarity....[A] mesmerizing story, by turns bleak and magical, nearly impossible to put down."

"Ruiz Zafón has revived the kind of full-blooded story of romance and mystery perfected by Victor Hugo. THE SHADOW OF THE WIND has an innocence that doesn't prevent it from being thoroughly enthralling; at heart, the novel is a story of star-crossed lovers, bold young heroes, their lovably eccentric sidekicks and a cruel, dastardly villain. There are no fiendishly clever twists or secret codes, but Ruiz Zafón doesn't need them. He sweeps you along with the sheer riverine force of his sincerity and passion."

First line

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

Publisher's note

A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author's works, only to discover that someone is destroying every book the author has ever written.

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This best-selling Spanish novel (translated into English by Lucia Graves) begins with a young boy named Daniel, who discovers a strange, forgotten novel in a bookstore: it's called THE SHADOW OF THE WIND, and the rumor is that its author is being plagued by a man who is trying to track down copies of the book so he can destroy them. As the story moves out of the 1940s and Daniel grows up, he becomes consumed with investigating this bizarre story and the life of the book's author, and the search for the truth takes him not only into the lives of others but deeply into his own background.

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