The Shadow of the Wind / Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In some birthday of mine, someone, who had nothing to do with reading books, brought me this one as present. He said he chose this particular one because it was written by a Spanish guy and at that time I was learning Spanish. The book remained on a shelf for a long time, because there were many more I wanted to read first...and how good could a book be, just because a Spanish guy wrote it? Until one day, I picked it up. And if I am right, three days later, I put down one of the most interesting stories I've come across. Since then I've read it two more times. One, just after I had finished it, because when you read something without a break ... a rerun usually reveals many more beautiful things you hadn't paid attention before. And the second to remember it, when I bought one of the sequels.

The Shadow of the Wind is a story about a book called "The Shadow of the Wind"! it's a book that love, mystery, magic and dark secrets come to life through its pages. Daniel chooses this novel from the Cemetery of the Forgotten Books. It's a secret library where books long forgotten await for the person who will choose to bring them back to light. The novel is fascinating. Julian Carax is the author and Daniel decides to find the rest of his writings. Yet he will discover that there is one person that is also looking for the novel written by Julian Carax, to destroy every copy, and his is the only one that still exists.

"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."

"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."

"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."