Wind Shadow is a book lover's dream date. The story begins at 1945 and tells the story of the young narrator Daniel coming to the graveyard of forgotten books. Daniel's father is a dealer of used and rare books in Barcelona. He told the little boy, "When a library disappears, or a bookstore closes, when a book is forgotten, those of us who know this place, its guardians, should make sure that it is sent here." In the cemetery, "books lost in time will last forever … every book you see here is someone's best friend." Mourning his mother's death, Daniel became friends with a book he found there, The Shadow of the Wind, which was written by a man named Julian Carax.
Young Daniel was fascinated by this short story, and he set out to find out who this Carax was and what else he wrote. Daniel's father, a bookseller, has never heard of Carax. They consult other dealers together. Someone offered a large sum of money for Daniel's Shadow of the Wind-but he didn't say why he gave it such a high price. However, Daniel refused to sell the book.
The years passed. Daniel heard a story about Calaque and his book. Someone went from town to town, from shop to shop, looking for Julian Carax's works and burning them. But who would do such a thing-why? As Daniel matures, the mystery is solved.
Carlos Ruiz Zafen's novel is a love story with multiple meanings. There is also adolescent Daniel, who entered adulthood in Spain under Franco's rule, doing what young boys do: listlessly longing for young women. Daniel's relationship, first with the blind girl Clara, and later with his best friend's sister Bea, is also a bond of literary friendship: books, like beds, allow lovers to share sheets. One night, Daniel told Bea over coffee:
"... this is a story about a book."
"About books?"
"About cursed books, about the people who wrote them, about a character who broke away from the novel to burn, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. This is a story about love, hatred and dreams of living in the shadow of the wind. "
But is nike blazer in Carax's novels really Carax? As Daniel grew up-both in life and in the investigation of his beloved wind shadow-he found that Calaque died several years ago. Just as Daniel thought he was sure to die, Carax seemed to die of a broken heart. However, if ...
"However, if ...?" Of course, it is this that urges readers to read great novels like Zafen. The wind of speculation constantly blows the mysterious shadow into the alley, pulling us into the maze and pursuing the novel story in the novel. Zafón is a great writer, keenly aware that books are fragments of the soul, and just like their human authors and readers, they are vulnerable to the changes of time and place. Cages of Zafón has a beautiful personality and background. He works in the political reality of Franco's dictatorship and is frank and humorous, but he has never had the spectacle of living under a totalitarian regime. The Wind Shadow is a Spanish best seller, which was carefully translated by robert Graves's daughter lucia Graves. Unfortunately, it has not been well received in the United States, because people like ignorant michael crichton have made the thriller unconscious. Wind Shadow takes us back to an era in which the characters have changed-not because they have an extra arm, but psychologically, thinking that the world is dangerous and a potential place of redemption. For fans of jorges luis borges, Alberto Eco and other writers, the shadow of the wind cannot be missed. These writers create tortuous plots through complex characterization.