Over the course of a decade or so, Daniel starts to investigate Carax in an attempt to read this author’s other works. The first follows Daniel’s life in post-war Barcelona: he works in his father’s bookshop, falls in love, and makes friends with a man called Fermín. The novel he chooses is The Shadow of the Wind by Julián Carax. Daniel is told to go choose one, as a sort of initiation into the group of people responsible for taking care of the Cemetery. Daniel’s father takes him to a place called the Cemetery of Lost Books – a giant building, guarded by a gruff old man and filled with old out-of-print books. The novel opens with a young Daniel Sempere in 1930s Barcelona, under the dictatorship of Franco. La sombra del viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón was published in 2001 and quickly rose to be one of the best-selling novels in Spain. Catherine Dekeizer A fantastical twist on 1930s Barcelona
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