02267nam a2200205   45000010005000000200018000051000033000232450076000562640034001323000023001663360026001893370028002153380027002435000088002705201523003585460033018816500059019146500056019736510032020296321  a97807538202541 aRuiz Zafon, Carlos,d1964.e14aThe shadow of the wind /cCarlos Ruiz Zafon translated by Lucia Graves.  aLondon :bOrion House,c2005.  a510 pages ;c20 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aOriginally published: New York: Penguin, 2004; London: Weidenfled & Nicolson, 2004.  aA 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.  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. And before long he realizes that if he  doesn't find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and  those closest to him will suffer horribly.  aTranslated from the Spanish.  aRare books -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction.vxyz2 0aAntiquarian booksellerszSpainzBarcelonavFiction. 0aBarcelona (Spain)vFiction.