Sadly, it did dip in the middle for me slightly, but it definitely picked up again towards the end.
The beginning of this book was my favourite part, and I was immediately drawn into the story. The writing (which is both a testament to the original author, translator and narrator), is so easy to get into and is also beautifully written. I read the audiobook of this one, and I must say from the first chapter I knew I’d enjoy it.
But I’ve wanted to pick this one up for a while ever since knowing that it’s one of BooksNest’s favourite books, and the synopsis sounded so interesting. I hardly ever read historical fiction – it’s just something I’m never really drawn to. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julián Carax, and to save those he left behind. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax’s works in order to burn them. Then one night, in the old streets of the city centre, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from ‘The Shadow of the wind’, a character who turns out to be the devil. As he grows up in a Barcelona still suffering the aftershocks of a violent civil war, Daniel is haunted by the story of the author, a man who seems to have disappeared without trace after a duel in Père Lachaise cemetery. But he is not the only one interested in Carax. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ by Julián Carax.Ĭaptivated by the novel from its very first page, Daniel reads the book in one sitting. To this library, one cold morning in 1945, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel. Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’, a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print.
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