I will always be grateful to you for recommending this beautifully written and captivating book.

The Shadow of the Wind. I first read Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s breathtaking novel The Shadow of the Wind shortly after it was published in English in 2004. If you’re a book lover, it quite simply has everything: a mysterious, disfigured author attempting to destroy every last copy of his published works; a hidden library of unfathomable proportions where rescued books are preserved for just the right reader to find; a gothic Barcelona in the 1940s and 1950s that emerges as a character in itself; a little romance, but not too much; and Fermin Romero de Torres, one of the greatest literary characters ever created. I read the last 300 pages or so in one long overnight marathon, stopping only long enough for more coffee and a smoke break; it’s that kind of book, the one you literally cannot put down.
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I will always be grateful to you for recommending this beautifully written and captivating book. A brilliant read.
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