La Sombra del Viento, de Carlos Ruiz Zafon (spanish)
Article created on 30 dic 2020 and updated on 30 dic 2020
It is a suspense novel, the first in the saga The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The story takes place in Barcelona during the years before the Spanish civil war, the post war and more or less until the sixties.
The novel tells a story that has a story included. It explains how the life of Daniel Sempere, at the age of ten, changes when his father, a bookstore owner in Barcelona, takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and finds the book entitled The Shadow of the Wind written by Julián Carax. Daniel is interested in this author and tries to find more of his novels, but it will be a very difficult task since almost all of the author's bibliography has mysteriously disappeared.
This story shows a Barcelona that is very different from the current one and transports us back in time to the difficult years of the Spanish war and post-war.
The truth is that it has everything: action, violence, love, friendship... It is a highly recommended novel.