3. Shadow of the Wind
by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
On the Ramblas in
Barcelona
4. This is a murder mystery...
The story begins with Daniel Sempere on his
eleventh birthday when his father takes him
to choose a volume at the Cemetery of
Forgotten Books, an antique bookshop just
off the Ramblas. He chooses “The Shadow
of the Wind” but soon learns that someone is
destroying all of the other copies.................
5. And so it begins....
“I still remember the day my father took me
to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the
first time. It was the early summer of 1945,
and we walked through the streets of
Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as
dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica
in a wreath of liquid copper.”
27. End Note
“Soon afterward, like figures made of steam,
father and son disappear into the crowd of
the Ramblas, their steps lost forever in the
shadow of the wind.”