Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Spanish novelist whose Cemetery of Forgotten Books series begins with The Shadow of the Wind.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (1964–2020) was a Spanish novelist.

The Shadow of the Wind is the first novel in his Cemetery of Forgotten Books cycle, set in post-war Barcelona.

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Literary Mystery

The Shadow of the Wind

by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

In post-war Barcelona, a boy chooses a forgotten novel from a secret library — and discovers someone has been destroying every copy of its author’s work.

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