should be honest at this point finally resist a film review. But then comes the good but rather tomorrow. Now I must first of all my enthusiasm for "The Shadow of the Wind" to vent!
"Books are mirrors: you can see in them only what you already have in him."
The young Daniel learns from his father, to know a book dealer in Barcelona after the war, the "Cemetery of Forgotten Books." In this huge library, he must choose a book. He chooses "The Shadow of the Wind", which draws him into his spell. In the following years, he sets about something about the author Julián Carax out, but of which no one seems to know whether he is still alive. A growing number of Daniel's life turns into a repetition of past events and slowly he realizes what he has awakened sleeping dogs with their inquiries. I'm blown away by this novel. Purchased I had it to me because of the extremely positive reviews and because I spoke to the plot. If I had had the last few weeks more, I would have probably read in a day, for it is one of those books that you will not put it down when you first started reading. Obtain a go again.
The story around the mystery of Julian Carax is telling great, with many flashbacks, through which the reader is increasingly aware of how to increase the parallels between Daniel's and Julian's life more and more. The style of writing is to read very fluently, with atmospheric descriptions, but often with a certain ironic Undertone of the whole thing again makes it extra entertaining.
The characters are drawn absolutely tangible and outstanding. Daniel is an excellent protagonist, is far from perfect, but he is undergoing significant development and I grew really fond of. grown even more fond of me but Fermín Romero de Torres, a former spy and after the civil war in disgrace, the Daniel helps in a bad way and this is made for you in the bookstore. He actively helps Daniel with his research, is served with a small rake and not like on the mouth. Beatrix Aguilar, sister of Daniel's friend Tomás, the femme fatale-like Nuria Montfort or its most beautiful Penelope provides the novel with some interesting female characters.
threatens on the edge of the whole of the shadow of inspector Javier Fumero, notorious for its ruthlessness and violence that is on the search for Fermín. A truly hateful figure.
I found it fascinating to see how the puzzle pieces to Caraxs past gradually put together - often ran me some change or dissolve a cold shiver down the spine. How Zafón the individual threads woven together until they form a clear whole, is superb and captivating to the end.
Although the main action Barcelona plays in the 50's and could actually be real, I almost have the feeling of having read an elaborate fantasy novel. I can not explain exactly why. Presumably it's the mood of the novel, full of mystery, with many characters who have something to hide, and then settled in Barcelona distant past.
I believe was with the following paragraph from p. 13, it occurred to me:
"Once I heard a regular customer at the bookstore to tell my father, impressed a few things a reader as much as the first book that really pave the way to his heart. The first few pages, the echo of these words who believe we left behind, accompany us for a lifetime and discover carve a palace in our memory to which we will return sooner or later, no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we how much we learn or forget. For me, this enchanted pages will always be the ones that I found in the corridors of the cemetery of forgotten books. "
" The Shadow of the Wind "is one of the best books I have ever read. I laughed. I cried. several times. with emotion, grief, joy. I wrote quotes from the book, which I normally never do. This must probably be a good book, I think.
Unconditional purchase recommendation.
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