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245		4	_aThe shadow of the wind
260			_bPenguin, _c2014
300			_a511 pages ; 20 cm.
520			_aA 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. 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. As with all astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for comparisons- The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo Peacute-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?-but in the end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice. As one leading Spanish reviewer wrote, ldquo. The originality of Ruiz Zafoacute's voice is bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature. An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller's art.
590			_bOriginally published in Spanish as La sombra del viento by Editorial Planeta, S.A., Barcelona.
630			_aP-EN _97841
650		0	_aAntiquarian booksellers _zSpain _zBarcelona _xFiction _97798
650		0	_aRare books _zSpain _zBarcelona _xFiction _97799
650			_aBarcelona (Spain) Fiction _97771
650			_aFICTION Literary _97800
650			_aFICTION Mystery & Detective Historical _97801
650			_aFICTION Thrillers Suspense _97802
650			_aAntiquarian booksellers _97803
650			_aRare books _97804
650			_aSpain Barcelona _97805
650			_aAntiquarian _97806
700			_aRuiz Zafón, Carlos _d1964-2020 _eAuthor _97807
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655			_aNovels
653			_aREADING IN ENGLISH