![]() The Shadow of the Wind introduces Daniel Sempere, the son of a librarian there, who, in the early 1930s, picks up a novel by an obscure author called Julián Carax, titled The Shadow of the Wind. This cemetery is a labyrinthine private library in Barcelona that archives texts threatened with theft or destruction. Ruiz Zafón gave the tetralogy the umbrella title The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. ![]() It is some consolation that he had completed the defining project of his career, which ran to 2,250 pages and occupied him for two decades: The Shadow of the Wind (2001, translated in 2004) and its three sequels The Angel’s Game (2009), The Prisoner of Heaven (2013) and The Labyrinth of the Spirits (2018). ![]() ![]() The fact that Ruiz Zafón wrote like one of the ancients makes it even more shocking that he has died at the age of 55. ![]()
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