The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Book Review!

The Shadow of the Wind - is a 2001 novel by Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón and a worldwide bestseller. "Wikipedia"

Hello, my beautiful friends! Thanks for coming! Today I am going to talk about The Shadow of the Wind!

Choose one book. But be aware, you may get trapped into its pages, as The Shadow of the Wind.

The Shadow of the Wind

A young boy Daniel is taken by his father to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and He chooses a novel that touches him. The author of that book died in poverty, but now someone is seeking out all remaining copies of his unsuccessful novels to burn. Daniel embarks on a mission to solve the mystery of the author's story being watched by a revengeful cop and the book burner itself. As the story twists and slowly unravels, he doesn't know whose to trust or how it will affect his life. The writing is absolutely gorgeous. The book is full of incredible quotes, beautiful, beautifully strung out sentences.

Do we live a full life or wander through it numb? The Shadow of the Wind is an allegory for death in a fictitious novel of the same title. Shadow is a perfect symbol of death evoking images of how death can be metaphorical instead of literal.

Living shadows of lives, chasing shadows of dreams, being shadows of others, letting memories shadow life. Every character had shadows which could overcome. In this sense, death becomes a fate we chose ourselves. Every time the word shadow was used. I considered its illusion of death. It was with much thought that the word was scattered throughout the book. The characters were exuberant, well-written, and larger than life in their tragedies as in their joys and desires.

Daniel consciously chooses to change his path or has fate dealt him a better hand? Julian wrote, "There are no coincidences. We are the puppets of our subconscious desires." But while the message is clear that we chose our own fate, it seems there was no fate but failure for Julian. The sad thing is I believed Julian's love for Penelope as it grew in obsession more than Daniel's passion for Beatriz, which seemed a happy chance of lust. I love Barcelona as the setting. The Spanish have a way of making all things metaphorically beautiful.

Overall this is a fascinating read that is sure to take you on an adventure that will make you wish there were more pages to read after you turn the last page.

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External Links:

・　The Shadow of the Wind - Wikipedia
・　The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Goodreads
・　In the Cemetery of Forgotten Books - The New York Times

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