The Shadow of the Wind

Resumen del libro

Barcelona, 1945 just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn't find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.

Biografía del autor

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Barcelona, 1964 - Los Ángeles, 2020) es uno de los autores más reconocidos de la literatura internacional de nuestros días y el escritor español más leído en todo el mundo después de Cervantes. Sus obras han sido traducidas a más de cincuenta idiomas. En 1993 se da a conocer con El Príncipe de la Niebla, que forma, con El Palacio de la Medianoche y Las Luces de Septiembre, la Trilogía de la Niebla. En 1998 llega Marina. En 2001 publica La Sombra del Viento, la primera novela de la saga de El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados, que incluye El Juego del Ángel, El Prisionero del Cielo y El Laberinto de los Espíritus, un universo literario que se ha convertido en uno de los grandes fenómenos de las letras contemporáneas en los cinco continentes. En 2020 se publicó La Ciudad de Vapor; que reúne todos los cuentos.<br> www.carlosruizzafon.comFB: Carlos Ruiz Zafón OficialTW: zafonoficialIG: zafonoficial