Cień wiatru

514 pages

Polish language

Published Nov. 4, 2005 by Warszawskie Wydawn. Literackie Muza SA.

ISBN:
978-83-7319-888-3
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OCLC Number:
68963937

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4 stars (7 reviews)

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.

72 editions

reviewed La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Autores españoles e iberoamericanos)

Review of 'La sombra del viento' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Uno de esos libros que van despacio, pero están escritos con un trazo inolvidable. Marcados quedarán por siempre muchos de estos personajes en mi memoria.

Es una historia auténtica, y creo que apta para cualquier amante de la literatura.

Si tenéis la oportunidad, el audiolibro de Jordi Boixaderas será un acompañante magnífico en vuestros diarios viajes al trabajo.

Review of 'The Shadow of the Wind' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

Despite not being a fantasy or science fiction novel (as I typically read), this was pretty good. My only complaint is in the narrator and the expository nature of part of the story. I felt it could have been a bit better had the author left some of the task of piecing together the mystery to the reader. However, the characters and plot was engaging and I don't think anything important was lost in the translation.

A full review is available at my blog: strakul.blogspot.com/2013/07/book-review-shadow-of-wind-by-carlos.html

Review of 'The Shadow of the Wind' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

What a lovely, lovely book. It's hard to describe how much I loved this book. It's spooky, romantic, has drama, and a historical background. Can't recommend this enough.

The story is set in Barcelona, Spain, just after the end of WWII. The 10-year old son of a bookshop owner, Daniel, is brought to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. There he is allowed to pick one book, and he picks The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax. Swept away by the mystery and writing of the author, Daniel becomes obsessed with finding out anything he can about the author. Over the course of the next 8 years, he learns the truth, which puts him in lethal danger, and finds out the tragic story of Julian Carax that strangely seems to mirror his own life.

I seriously was swept away here. I loved the characters, the gothic setting, the way the …

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Subjects

  • Young men
  • Fiction
  • Antiquarian booksellers
  • Mothers and sons
  • Widowers
  • Books
  • Rare books
  • Spanish Detective and mystery stories

Places

  • Spain
  • Barcelona
  • Barcelona (Spain)