La Sombra Del Viento/ the Shadow of the Wind
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- LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO
- Excellent, this is a must read! And if you speak spanish I would highly recomend to read this book in it's original language. It has been one of the best books I've read lately.
- 2006-11-10, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- LA sombra del Viento
- It is a pleasure to reed this novel. Not only the story is great but the way the author writes is just beatifull and smart. I could not put it down.
- 2006-11-06, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A marvelous tale of intrigue, love, and a passion for stories, written in delicious prose
- Ruiz Zafon enchants with this gripping narrative of a young man in Barcelona in the 1940s and 1950s. The story opens with our young protagonist, Daniel Sempere, as his father leads him to the Cemetery of Lost Books. There Daniel chooses a forgotten book to adopt and sets in motion a tapestry of interweaving tales, all converging at Daniel's book.
"There are worse prisons than words," says one character as she teaches a global truth as well as one specific to this book: once entrapped, I found myself reading this book constantly until I turned the last page of the epilogue. The story is fascinating and tragic. The characters are fascinating and they feel real (most of the time): there are those with whom I would love to be friends and others that I would tremble to know. And the prose! Ruiz Zafon uses language wonderfully, making each page delicious to consume.
I read the novel in Spanish, but I have heard only rave reviews of the English translation (The Shadow of the Wind). Professional reviewers were mostly superbly positive: Richard Eder of the New York Times describes it as "'Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges' for a sprawling magic show, exasperatingly tricky and mostly wonderful"; Michael Dirda of the Washington Post writes that, "anyone who enjoys novels that are scary,...touching, tragic, and thrilling should rush right out to...pick up The Shadow of the Wind." Twice, as I carried the book with me in public, passers-by exclaimed quite literally how much they loved the book. This novel earns its enthusiasm. - 2006-09-11, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Una intriga literaria / A literary mystery.
- This novel has its defects (somewhat unbelievable main character and the profusion of clichés), but stressing those too much would be unfair to its accomplishments: an excellent rythm, intertwined plots that are a work of genius, constant tension, and all the passion that the writer poured in its telling. Sometimes it seems as if he were revealing the details of a very intimate affair.
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La novela tiene sus faltas (un personaje principal inverosimil y la profusión de clichés), pero destacarlas demasiado sería robarle sus virtudes: un ritmo excelente, un enlace de tramas que me pareció genial, la tensión constante, y toda la pasión que Ruiz Zafón derrochó en ella. A veces parece que hablara de algo que conoció muy de cerca. - 2006-06-03, 3 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Una lectura llena de placer
- Este es uno de esos libros que nos hacen revivir la esperanza de que la literatura no ha muerto. Hay pocas novelas hoy en día que se dejen leer como esta. No sé qué es mejor: si el estilo del autor (cuidado, pero sencillo; hermoso, aunque sin ningún barroquismo) o la anécdota que cuenta, que nos remonta y rescata esa novela decimonónica donde la trama creaba todo un universo lleno de suspense. Una vez que se empieza, es imposible dejarlo.
- 2006-04-02, 4 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
