One morning 1945 the owner of a small used bookstore conducts year-old son, Daniel, in the heart of the old city of Barcelona to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a place where thousands of books that time has erased the memory, are subtracted to 'oblivion. Here Daniel comes into possession of the book "curse" that will change the course of his life, introducing it into a labyrinth of intrigue associated with the figure of its author and has long dark soul of the buried city. A novel in which the glow of a disturbing past reverberate in the present of the young star, in Barcelona from a dual identity: the rich and elegant splendor of the past and the grim postwar Modernism.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón ( Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSeptember 25 1964) is a English writer . Author of books for children ( Prince of the fog ), debuted in fifth with his adult fiction novel, The Shadow of the Wind ( Planeta, 2002 - Mondadori, 2004 ), which, released quietly in Spain, won by word of mouth on top of the charts European literary, becoming a genuine literary phenomenon. lives since 1993 in Los Angeles, where he engaged in the writer. She contributes regularly to the cultural pages of "El País " and " La Vanguardia . The Shadow of the Wind was a success, with more than 8 million copies sold worldwide, acclaimed as one of the great literary revelations of recent years. It has been translated into over 36 languages \u200b\u200band has received numerous international awards, including Barry Award for best first novel in 2005. On 17 April 2008 Planeta out for his second novel "El juego del Ángel ." The initial print run This book is the highest for a first edition in Spain . On 25 October 2008 released by Mondadori the novel translated in Italian "The game angel", while in the May 2009 out in Italy " Marina." The May 7 2010 out, again for Mondadori, for the first time in Italian bookshops "The palace of midnight " released in English in 1994 with the name "El palacio de la medianoche ".
Title: The Shadow of the Wind
Original title: La Sombra del Viento
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Mondadori
Collection: Oscar big bestsellers
Publication: 2006 (the first in 2002)
ISBN: 8804561300
Pages: 439
Price: € 13.00 
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