Marina is a gothic novel written by Carlos Ruiz Zafón and published for the first time in 1999.
This book tells
about Oscar Drai and his adventure. At the beginning, Oscar recalls one of his
memories, something happened to him fifteen years before, which he has
pretended to forget.
“I didn’t realise then that sooner or later the ocean of time brings back the memories we submerge in it”
The story of the book
The
book speaks about Daniel’s adventure. In 1945 in Barcelona, the owner of a bookshop decides to show his son Daniel
Sempere “The Cemetery of The Forgotten Books”, a place where the people bring
out-of-print books to save them. There, Daniel Sempere
discovers a book called The shadow of the
wind by Julian Carax. This book captures Daniel’s imagination.
He
wants to know Carax and so he investigates about him. He discovers that his copy
is the last one because a mysterious figure called Laìn Coubert wants to
destroy Carax’s works. In Carax’s story, Laìn Coubert is the name of the Devil.
He
discovers a “damned” story, impossible loves and a macabre secret. This is a
story where Daniel finds out uncannily resemblances with his life.
During
the research, he knows many characters such us Fermín Romero de Torres, who
will become his best friend, Gustavo Barcelo and his niece Clara, whom he will
fall in love with, and inspector Fumero, who will be his enemy.
The shadow of the wind is the most important and most popular of Zafón’s books.
