The Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon · 2001
Literary Fiction · ranked #95 in category
In post-Civil War Barcelona, a boy named Daniel is taken by his father to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, where he chooses a novel by Julian Carax — and begins to discover that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of Carax's work. Zafon's novel is a love letter to books, to Barcelona and to the Gothic tradition.
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