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The shadow of the wind

This literary detective story is set in the heart of the old city of Barcelona in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. It is an exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead. At ten years old, Daniel Sempere is taken to the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books", a library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. It is here that Daniel is allowed to choose one book to keep.

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  • "This literary detective story is set in the heart of the old city of Barcelona in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. It is an exploration of obsession in literature and love, and the places that obsession can lead. At ten years old, Daniel Sempere is taken to the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books", a library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. It is here that Daniel is allowed to choose one book to keep."@en
  • "After the death of his mother, Daniel Sempere finds solace in very few things. There is one book, however, that brings him comfort. It is called The Shadow of the Wind and is written by an author named Julian Carax. When Daniel begins to search for other books by Carak, he discovers, to his horror, that someone has been systematically destroying all of Carax's works."@en
  • "Barcelona, 1945: a city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to find the author's other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax's books in existence. Soon Daniel's seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets - an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love. -Back cover."
  • "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."@en
  • "A 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."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the "cemetery of lost books", a labrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, one cold morning in 1945, a man brings his ten-year-old son Daniel. Allowed to choose one book from the shelves, Daniel pulls out La Sombra del Viento (The Shadow of the Wind) by Julian Carax. Daniel is captivated by the novel from the very first page and grows up haunted by the unusual story of its author. Then one night, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from the book, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's works in order to burn them. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind."@en
  • "Fantasy fiction. This is an MP3 Audio Book for people with print disabilities. It is 1945 and Barcelona is enduring the long aftermath of civil war when Daniel Sempere's bookseller father decides his son is old enough to visit the secret Cemetery of Forgotten Books. There Daniel must àdopt' a single book, promising to care for it and keep it alive always. His choice falls on The Shadow of the Wind.Bewitched, he embarks on an epic quest to find the truth about Julian Carax, the book's mysterious author. Soon Daniel is consumed by strange discoveries about love and obsession, art and life, and how they become entangled within the shadow world of books. The Shadow of the Wind is a mesmerising love story and literary thriller, which twists and turns and enthralls with its cast of vengeful souls, threatening spectres and innocent hearts."

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