La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Wind
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- Hey you can't miss it !!
- This is an excellent book to put it in a short and simple manner and that's it. All other reviews in this page are saying the same so I am not going to insist and repeat. Just one thing, read it as soon as it becomes available again out of Spain (in Spain one can find it easily)or when it gets translated to other languages. I know it will !! It'll also make a great amazing movie in the right hands. Yes, it is a very entertaining book, with a twisted plot that's going to keep you awake until you finish it. But it also has deeper things going on: the father-son relationship, the love for books, and a very critical attitude towards the winners of the Spanish Civil War. About the author, I can only guess this is just the beginning of a bright literary career.
- 2003-04-21, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Una historia en la Barcelona de los años 50
- Una extraordinaria narración, bien construida, con un enfoque "cinematográfico". Habla de muchas cosas. Del amor, de la separación forzada de dos personajes centrales , Julian Carax y Penélope, y de como otros personajes, fascinados por la historia de Julián (notable escritor, aunque no reconocido) reconstruyen los pasos perdidos, en un ambiente de intriga cada vez mayor, con el paisaje gris de la Barcelona de postguerra como telón de fondo. Denuncia soterrada de la represión, hipocresía y bajeza de los "ganadores" de la guerra.
- 2003-03-09, 4 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- what a book !
- It was the sensation of the year like the previous reviwer has ponited out and I wanted to buy it for an english frind but still there is no sign of it yet!!! WHY NOT??? This book could be a film easily and was the mouth to mouth book that surpassed any expectation!
The best book I have read last year, trully magic, from the beginning I could not put the book down till the end, I could even sleep, yes it's a cliche but what it's not a cliche it's this book.
It takes you to the magic of literature and the bond between father and son, not only you witness the grown up of a child but his love for books and why we need to look after them in times when other facts seem more important than read and learn about ourselves through someone else.
it's totally magic and enchnating wrapped up with a thiller that will keep you awake day after day.
- 2003-03-02, 2 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- One of the best of 2002
- Almost without promotion, this book has become one of the best sellers of the Spanish market in 2002. The reason behind it is its elegant and sensitive mixture of ingredients. Critics have compared the author, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, with Eduardo Mendoza and Arturo Pérez Reverte, and indeed do we have a literary mystery, not unlike the kind Pérez Reverte used to excel at, and we have the early XXth century Barcelona as a background (and a very gothic Barcelona, at that), but in all fairness the references trascend those mentioned. This is the story of youngster Daniel Sempere, entrusted with the care of a unique book ("The wind's shadow", exactly like the title of this novel). His research for information on the book's author will reveal as far more dangerous than he anticipated, and will teach him a thing or two about love and courage. This book has a magical quality to it, both in the collection of well rounded but altogether odd characters it portrays, in its description of the dark years after the civil war as in the strange tingling it leaves in your heart after reading it. A winner.
- 2003-01-02, 30 of 31 people found this review helpful, Rated:
