Any book-lover will fall in love with the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and wish it were real. Whenever a bookstore or a library closes, its books end up in the Cemetery. He has always loved books, and, at the beginning of the novel, his father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a labyrinth filled with many halls of books, in a palatial building.
Daniel is the son of an antiquarian bookseller, and his mother has died. The protagonist, Daniel Sempere, is ten years old when the novel begins, and he ages throughout the novel, so he is in his early twenties by the end.
It begins in Barcelona in 1945, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. The Shadow of the Wind is a complex, multi-layered novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, the first of four novels in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series.
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