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La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Wind (Autores Espanoles E Iberoamericanos) (Spanish Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Planeta
Category: Book
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Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 52615
Media: Paperback
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Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0974872407
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780974872407
ASIN: 0974872407
Publication Date: June 30, 2006
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Product Description
The international bestseller with over 10 million copies sold—the first installment in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series.
On the dawn of a summer day in 1945, a young boy is taken by his father to a mysterious place hidden in the heart of the old city: the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Here, Daniel Sempere will find a haunting book and with it a passion that will change the course of his life. Set in Barcelona in the first half of the twentieth century, La Sombra del Viento is a literary mystery and a tale of doomed love in a world of intrigues and secrets hidden in the dark soul of the city.
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 One of the best of 2002 January 2, 2003
Mar Calpena (Barcelona, Spain)
31 out of 32 found this review helpful
Almost without promotion, this book has become one of the best sellers of the Spanish market in 2002. The reason behind it is its elegant and sensitive mixture of ingredients. Critics have compared the author, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, with Eduardo Mendoza and Arturo Pérez Reverte, and indeed do we have a literary mystery, not unlike the kind Pérez Reverte used to excel at, and we have the early XXth century Barcelona as a background (and a very gothic Barcelona, at that), but in all fairness the references trascend those mentioned. This is the story of youngster Daniel Sempere, entrusted with the care of a unique book ("The wind's shadow", exactly like the title of this novel). His research for information on the book's author will reveal as far more dangerous than he anticipated, and will teach him a thing or two about love and courage. This book has a magical quality to it, both in the collection of well rounded but altogether odd characters it portrays, in its description of the dark years after the civil war as in the strange tingling it leaves in your heart after reading it. A winner.
Para generaciones por venir February 29, 2004
Jose Oquendo (Freeport, New York United States)
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
El talento literario de Carlos Ruiz Zafón envuelve a los
protagonistas de La Sombra del Viento en un sinfín de recovecos
progresivamente sorprendentes y misteriosos, estimulando la
continuidad de la lectura. Es una novela que combina genialmente
el poder insospechado de los libros, la motivación imparable de
la juventud, la capacidad del amor para derribar barreras, la
fidelidad incondicional de la amistad y el triunfo del bien sobre
el mal, en una narrativa de misterio con ambiente histórico. Su
estructura recuerda obras clásicas decimonónicas, sin dejar de
ser popular. Está tan bien trabajada que se seguirá leyendo en
generaciones por venir. Las posibilidades de que el libro sea
llevado a la pantalla gigante son muy buenas. Le auguro éxito.
Will become one of the great novels of our time.... April 16, 2004
Juan C Villamil (Bogota, Colombia)
23 out of 29 found this review helpful
Excellent read. Very realistic characters involved in an extremely misterious, almost surreal plot.A tribute to books, literature and the power of both to change lives. A love story. An ode to youth and the immortality of the soul. Passion in its purest form. Definitely worth your time. Without a doubt this book will be there for a long time.
 An unnecessary overextended novel October 2, 2004
Manuel Reguillo-Cruz (Guadalajara, México)
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
Most of the reviewers in this page say that the book "trapped" them from the very first page. I don't agree, but these Spanish readers have to furl to something easy to read and with no demand in concentration or analysis. I find Ruiz Zafón preciouscist in his idiom, pedantic in his approach to his tortuous theme, and overextended in his length (more than 538 pages).
Editorialists compare him to Borges as Ruiz Zafón intends to replicate the Argentinian author's idea of the labyrintic library. If Borges were alive I'm sure he wouldn't like this comparison. Where the Argentinian saves words with exquisite care and writes no more than the necessary to savor each of his scarce pages, the Spaniard writes pages and pages of rubbish as a possessed.
True, his evocation of the Barcelona of the pre and post Civil War is remarkable, but this doesn't make this book the motive of such good critique as it has received.
With so many really good and interesting books one wants to read and with such a short life ahead of us, why should we read authors like this. They say Ruiz Zafón lives in Los Angeles, California, and is preparing his next novel. God save us from that.
You want to read a good thriller? Read Eric Ambler, the same Borges, Perec or LeCarré.
A light shade of grey August 2, 2005
M. Ferrer (SPAIN)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Following the enormous success this book has had in Spain and abroad, I decided to purchase it. And the novel it was not a dissapointment at all. Ruíz Zafón has written a nostalgic, hard and grey story. Exactly as it was Spain after the civil war. And that is probably one of its main values. The ability for depicting the misery and lost that people felt in those terrible years. La sombra del viento drinks, literally and literarily in the sources of the most classical tradition of novels in Spain. Since Pio Baroja, to Galdos and the whole generation of the 50's. A careful depiction of sceneries and people that helps the reader to get into the story. And even when this is a mistery novel we can find also some slight touches of the traditional "feulletin". So I would say it is a very enjoyable novel. Easy to read, very well written and I had a great time reading it. But, yes there is always a but , there is not so original as the beging made me thought. The idea of a cemetery of books was really appealing but slowly the story turns to be a good thriller written with a very good style. And the end although correct for the developement of the story left me wanting more. No more drama or story but depth. I have the feeling the writer wanted to end as soon as possible, and this is really disapponting.
Ruiz Zafón has the skills and the manners but I think he could be more adventurous and reach the last consequences of the story.
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