The Shadow of the Wind
By: Carlos Ruiz Zafo n ; translated by Lucia Graves.
Edition: 2005 Phoenix paperback edition (25)
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 2005
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: spa
Translation of: La Sombra del viento
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9780753820254
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Out-of-print books -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction; Novelists, Spanish -- Fiction; Barcelona (Spain) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Sombra del viento.
Description: Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his ten-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book and from the dusty shelves pulls The Shadow of the Wind by Juliån Carax. But as Daniel grows up. several people seem inordinately interested in his find. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Juliån Carax and to save those he left behind.

Shortlisted by Richard and Judy's Book Club
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Notes: Originally published: New York: Penguin, 2004; London: Weidenfled & Nicolson, 2004.
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