The Shadow of the Wind (Spanish: La sombra del viento) is a novel by the Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón and a worldwide bestseller.
It is believed to be sold ib 15 million copies worldwide making it one of the best-selling books of all time.
The novel is actually a story within a story. The novel opens in the 1940s with Daniel, a boy whose father owns a bookshop in Barcelona. One day, his father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books—a secret library that houses rare and banned books. Daniel is drawn to one called The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax and takes it home with him. Daniel quickly reads and falls in love with the story. He soon discovers that the book's mysterious author, Carax, has gone missing along with every other copy of The Shadow of the Wind and most of his other works. Daniel then sets out to find out what happened to the author and his books.
This is a book that has been red by my all members of family and even in the hair salon that my brother owns he had some books for aesthetic points and there was the shadow of the wind and I thought OK I love reading so I decided to give it a try and to buy a book and that’s what I did 😄
When word gets around that Daniel possesses the only known copy of The Shadow of the Wind, he receives an inquiry from Gustavo Barceló, a rare-book seller and expert on Carax who wishes to purchase it. Daniel refuses to sell it, but soon falls in love with Barceló's blind niece, Clara, and begins to pay frequent visits to read The Shadow of the Wind to her. However, she is several years older and does not reciprocate his feelings. His possession of the book also attracts the attention of a mysterious stranger with a badly burned and disfigured face named Lain Coubert (the name of the character of the devil in the book) who is also trying to get his hands on it.
This book begins with an interesting intro but in one part because it is like 500 pages quiet not pouring but story gets a little bit slow and that’s where I struggle a little bit but after that like 300 pages, I have read in two days, it’s just you want to know what’s happening and everything that is happening is not too much. Everything is just in the right place so the pictures I’m going to upload are highlights of the sentences I liked
The best thing about woman is discovering them
People complicate their lives as the life is not complicated by itself
Don’t add years to yourself because life will add it on their own
Me too, nodded and left, caring his legs and his soul
Something made me realize that only lunch that she had was her coffee
And I thought to myself how much I cannot give her and how much I wanna take from her
