by Carlos Ruiz Zafón · Penguin Publishing Group · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780143034902
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«The Shadow of the Wind» is the mystery novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, published by Penguin Publishing Group in paperback (487 pages, in English).
In 1945 Barcelona, Daniel, son of an antiquarian bookseller, finds a copy of «The Shadow of the Wind» in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a work by one Julián Carax. Searching for other works by the author, he discovers someone has been destroying them, and his quest drags him into the city's darkest secrets.
First novel in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series; originally published as «La sombra del viento» and translated into English by Lucia Graves.
For readers of historical mystery with a gothic atmosphere, lovers of stories about books, and book clubs.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento. The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in a list of the 100 best books in Spanish of the last 25 years, made in 2007 by 81 Spanish and Hispanic American writers and critics.
