The shadow of the wind

R$ 132,90

Sinopse

Barcelona, 1945. Just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rarbooks dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, 'The Shadow of the Wind', by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.

Participantes

Autor: Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Tradutor: Lucia Graves

Autor

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

Carlos Ruiz Zafón nasceu em Barcelona, em 1964. Em 1993, ganhou o prêmio Ebedé de literatura com seu primeiro romance, O Príncipe da Névoa, que vendeu mais de 150.000 exemplares na Espanha e foi traduzido em vários idiomas. Desde então, publicou quatro romances e transformou-se em uma das maiores revelações literárias dos últimos tempos com A Sombra do Vento, finalista dos prêmios literários espanhóis Fernando Lara 2001 e Llibreter 2002. O autor vive atualmente em Los Angeles, onde escreve roteiros para o cinema e trabalha em um novo romance. Zafón colabora também nos jornais espanhóis La Vanguardia e El País.