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.
