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Author Ruiz Zafón, Carlos, 1964-

Title La sombra del viento = The shadow of the wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

Edition Primera edición Vintage Español.
Publication Info. Nueva York : Vintage Español, una división de Random House, Inc., 2009.
©2001.
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 95th Street Adult Fiction World Language  SPANISH F RUIZ    DUE 05-08-24
 Nichols Adult Fiction World Language  SPANISH F RUIZ    AVAILABLE
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Description 569 pages ; 24 cm
Language In Spanish.
Summary This thriller follows the mysterious disappearance of an author of melodramas, Juli n Carax, and how his book influences the 10-year-old Daniel Sempere. When Daniel visits a mysterious and secret Library of Forgotten Books in 1940s Barcelona and finds Carax's novel The Shadow of the Wind, he becomes obsessed with Carax. For more than a decade , he follows the writer's ghost through a labyrinth of love, sex, violence, friendship, and betrayal. The narration unfolds through an interesting, yet overextended, interplay of overlapping characters and stories. Carax's and Ruiz Zafon's novels blend throughout the story, sometimes misleading the reader but ending in masterfully executed pages.
Un amanecer de 1945, un muchacho es conducido por su padre a un misterioso lugar oculto en el corazón de la ciudad vieja: el Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados. Allí encuentra La Sombra del Viento, un libro maldito que cambiará el rumbo de su vida y le arrastrará a un laberinto de intrigas y secretos enterrados en el alma oscura de la ciudad. Ambientada en la enigmática Barcelona de principios del siglo XX, este misterio literario mezcla técnicas de relato de intriga, de novela histórica y de comedia de costumbres, pero es, sobre todo, una tragedia histórica de amor cuyo eco se proyecta a través del tiempo. Con gran fuerza narrativa, el autor entrelaza tramas y enigmas a modo de muñecas rusas en un inolvidable relato sobre los secretos del corazón y el embrujo de los libros, manteniendo la intriga hasta la última página.(
Subject Young men -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction.
Antiquarian booksellers -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction.
Mothers and sons -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction.
Widowers -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction.
Books -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction.
Rare books -- Spain -- Barcelona -- Fiction.
Barcelona (Spain) -- Fiction.
Spanish language materials -- Fiction.
Spanish language materials.
Genre Mystery fiction.
Novela policiaca.
Spanish language materials.
Added Title Shadow of the wind
ISBN 9780307472595 (pbk.)
0307472590 (pbk.)
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