--- product_id: 5354493 title: "The Shadow of the Wind" price: "₹ 2604" currency: INR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.in/products/5354493-the-shadow-of-the-wind store_origin: IN region: India --- # The Shadow of the Wind **Price:** ₹ 2604 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Shadow of the Wind - **How much does it cost?** ₹ 2604 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.in](https://www.desertcart.in/products/5354493-the-shadow-of-the-wind) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description "Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind . Really, you should." —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “Wondrous...masterful... The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” — Entertainment Weekly, Editor's Choice “This is one gorgeous read.” —Stephen King "I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetary of Forgotten Books for the first time..." Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind , by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets—an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love. Review: Stunning and Unlike anything I have ever read - I have always believed that a book finds you, if it wants you to read it. I think that happens to most of us - to the reader who waits patiently for the book to come along and take him or her on a ride that cannot be forgotten. Two people and very different people at that told me to read, "The Shadow of the Wind". I had the book in my possession, however had not read it till then. I always wanted to, but did not. I guess my time had to come on its own. I had to wait for the book and it has been a wait worth it like no other. "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is everything you expect from a well-written book. The plot makes you turn the pages. The sentences and language make you fall in love with the writer's thought process. The characters make you connect with them at all levels of human emotions and more than anything else, this book is about love for literature and reading, and not letting the written word die. The book is about the search of a boy, Daniel Sempere for the truth about the fate of Julian Carax, the author of a mystery novel (also named The Shadow of the Wind). Daniel adopts the book when his father, a bibliophile and a bookseller takes him to the metaphorical (or real) Cemetery of Forgotten Books and it is there that he owns the book and gets embroiled in its author's life. He sets out to search for more books written by him and to know what happened to him. In all of this, he learns of someone who is named after one of Carax's characters and has set out to burn every single copy of Carax's books and will not stop at anything. Daniel gets involved with him as well and the story thickens. It is one tale after another, intertwined and encompassing the length and breadth of great storytelling, till the reader with bated breath reaches the end of the book. The book is about Barcelona's deepest and darkest secret that is about to be revealed, which of course the reader has to discover for himself or herself. Zafon's characters are haunting and well thought after. He is the master of mood setting. Every page speaks of scenes with mists, clouds, evenings, darkness, the pale lamplight, thunder, rain and Zafon brilliantly so makes the reader a part of his atmosphere and setting, so much so that I actually thought I was living all of it in Barcelona (where the story is set). Zafon speaks of books like living beings, which I also think they are and he makes them real for the readers in his book. To a very large extent, the book is extraordinary because of the way the author is treating every word - with great caution and love. When this happens in a book, it is but natural that the reader will also read every word with great love and joy. With reference to the setting, which is Barcelona before the Spanish Civil War, Zafon talks of politics and life with great passion and almost wants the reader to know how important the setting is to the story. Books about books have always fascinated me and this was also one of those reads. It is very difficult to classify "The Shadow of the Wind" in one genre and yet to a large extent I think the book belongs to Literary Fiction as it covers almost every aspect of life and living. There is courage, intrigue, love, fairy tale quality, Goth, redemption, politics, love, hate, passion and almost every other emotion and characteristic that you can think of in the book. The quality of writing, the old school setting, the power of storytelling, the characters and the plot, all come together and speak of books and reading and the love for them. I could go on and on about this book and the writing, but you know what I mean when I say: Read this book soon or let it find you the way it found me. Review: This GREAT read sometimes gets lost in the translation - I understand why this book series has gotten such good press. It must be a gorgeous read in Spanish. The only trouble is: I read in English. I hate to say something so negative here but the translation is awful. I mean, this translator never wrote a sentence without at least one unnecessary 'that.' Some short paragraphs had as many as nine 'thats.' Yeah, I counted at one point... I am a firm believer the written word should be just a tad better than everyday speech. I don't buy into the modern dictionary's nine or more definitions for 'that.' Ridiculous! It is a pronoun one should use VERY sparingly. Anyone getting past a beginning writing course should know to watch how many times they use it. It is NOT a helping verb. When used with a verb it should trigger use of the gerund instead. Does any writer anywhere know what a gerund is anymore? AI editing will do that for us someday, I do hope. And don't get me started on punctuation. I think desertcart is running everything through a punctuation program automatically adding a comma before every conjunction. The programmer skipped class when the lessons were on commas. You don't need a comma between the two sides of every compound sentence. You don't need a comma before every so, every but, every and. Every, single, one! A comma every single time an oral reader takes a breath. It is enough interruption to make me nuts! I want to read for enjoyment, not do their editing with one finger through a Kindle screen with no way of knowing whether anyone actually ever sees the ERROR corrections. Okay, setting all that aside, I do have to say these books are some of my absolute favorites from a story standpoint. I picked it up (in print, in English) in a Madrid hotel and I reread them every few years. Fermin is one of the best characters I've encountered in many years of avid reading. He is hilarious and tragic, too. The story of Julian and his friends always sticks with me. Somehow they are very believable and understandable to me. Barcelona is a city I love to hate. It has its beautiful side and is fun to envision in the timeframe of the books. I can imagine the city streets and do enjoy the mention of landmarks in a city I know a little. I don't mind reading the teenage boy angst. My imagination goes wild with the scenes and settings in the new and the old parts of the city. If you can overlook some terrible translation faux pas I highly recommend this series of books! And DO read them in Spanish if you can! ## Features - Great product! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #4,608 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #18 in Historical Mystery | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 26,294 Reviews | ## Images ![The Shadow of the Wind - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/913DdP7RflL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Stunning and Unlike anything I have ever read *by V***A on April 6, 2013* I have always believed that a book finds you, if it wants you to read it. I think that happens to most of us - to the reader who waits patiently for the book to come along and take him or her on a ride that cannot be forgotten. Two people and very different people at that told me to read, "The Shadow of the Wind". I had the book in my possession, however had not read it till then. I always wanted to, but did not. I guess my time had to come on its own. I had to wait for the book and it has been a wait worth it like no other. "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon is everything you expect from a well-written book. The plot makes you turn the pages. The sentences and language make you fall in love with the writer's thought process. The characters make you connect with them at all levels of human emotions and more than anything else, this book is about love for literature and reading, and not letting the written word die. The book is about the search of a boy, Daniel Sempere for the truth about the fate of Julian Carax, the author of a mystery novel (also named The Shadow of the Wind). Daniel adopts the book when his father, a bibliophile and a bookseller takes him to the metaphorical (or real) Cemetery of Forgotten Books and it is there that he owns the book and gets embroiled in its author's life. He sets out to search for more books written by him and to know what happened to him. In all of this, he learns of someone who is named after one of Carax's characters and has set out to burn every single copy of Carax's books and will not stop at anything. Daniel gets involved with him as well and the story thickens. It is one tale after another, intertwined and encompassing the length and breadth of great storytelling, till the reader with bated breath reaches the end of the book. The book is about Barcelona's deepest and darkest secret that is about to be revealed, which of course the reader has to discover for himself or herself. Zafon's characters are haunting and well thought after. He is the master of mood setting. Every page speaks of scenes with mists, clouds, evenings, darkness, the pale lamplight, thunder, rain and Zafon brilliantly so makes the reader a part of his atmosphere and setting, so much so that I actually thought I was living all of it in Barcelona (where the story is set). Zafon speaks of books like living beings, which I also think they are and he makes them real for the readers in his book. To a very large extent, the book is extraordinary because of the way the author is treating every word - with great caution and love. When this happens in a book, it is but natural that the reader will also read every word with great love and joy. With reference to the setting, which is Barcelona before the Spanish Civil War, Zafon talks of politics and life with great passion and almost wants the reader to know how important the setting is to the story. Books about books have always fascinated me and this was also one of those reads. It is very difficult to classify "The Shadow of the Wind" in one genre and yet to a large extent I think the book belongs to Literary Fiction as it covers almost every aspect of life and living. There is courage, intrigue, love, fairy tale quality, Goth, redemption, politics, love, hate, passion and almost every other emotion and characteristic that you can think of in the book. The quality of writing, the old school setting, the power of storytelling, the characters and the plot, all come together and speak of books and reading and the love for them. I could go on and on about this book and the writing, but you know what I mean when I say: Read this book soon or let it find you the way it found me. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ This GREAT read sometimes gets lost in the translation *by P***E on September 21, 2025* I understand why this book series has gotten such good press. It must be a gorgeous read in Spanish. The only trouble is: I read in English. I hate to say something so negative here but the translation is awful. I mean, this translator never wrote a sentence without at least one unnecessary 'that.' Some short paragraphs had as many as nine 'thats.' Yeah, I counted at one point... I am a firm believer the written word should be just a tad better than everyday speech. I don't buy into the modern dictionary's nine or more definitions for 'that.' Ridiculous! It is a pronoun one should use VERY sparingly. Anyone getting past a beginning writing course should know to watch how many times they use it. It is NOT a helping verb. When used with a verb it should trigger use of the gerund instead. Does any writer anywhere know what a gerund is anymore? AI editing will do that for us someday, I do hope. And don't get me started on punctuation. I think Amazon is running everything through a punctuation program automatically adding a comma before every conjunction. The programmer skipped class when the lessons were on commas. You don't need a comma between the two sides of every compound sentence. You don't need a comma before every so, every but, every and. Every, single, one! A comma every single time an oral reader takes a breath. It is enough interruption to make me nuts! I want to read for enjoyment, not do their editing with one finger through a Kindle screen with no way of knowing whether anyone actually ever sees the ERROR corrections. Okay, setting all that aside, I do have to say these books are some of my absolute favorites from a story standpoint. I picked it up (in print, in English) in a Madrid hotel and I reread them every few years. Fermin is one of the best characters I've encountered in many years of avid reading. He is hilarious and tragic, too. The story of Julian and his friends always sticks with me. Somehow they are very believable and understandable to me. Barcelona is a city I love to hate. It has its beautiful side and is fun to envision in the timeframe of the books. I can imagine the city streets and do enjoy the mention of landmarks in a city I know a little. I don't mind reading the teenage boy angst. My imagination goes wild with the scenes and settings in the new and the old parts of the city. If you can overlook some terrible translation faux pas I highly recommend this series of books! And DO read them in Spanish if you can! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Memories are Worse than Bullets *by D***D on October 13, 2009* "Memories are worse than bullets" from page 427 of "The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon captures the coloring of this story - imbued with the memories of the key players. The tale is elegantly written (though a bit too long), beautifully translated (with a few glaring blunders), and totally mesmerizing. It was hard to put down and easy to pick up again. As to the funniest translation mistake, see Page 343, "...that the dice had been cast," a whopping misunderstanding of the phrase "the die has been cast." The setting is 1940s and 1950s Barcelona (with side trips to Paris). The author has captured the feel of post civil-war, post world war II Spain perfectly. And, as a bonus, there is a tour map with pictures and guiding narrative at the end of the book for those who want to trace the steps of the book's characters as they lived in this story. Some of the over-intellectualizing critics here (see the very few negative reviews) kind of miss the point. This is a great story, written by a very talented story-teller, filled with wonderfully developed and interesting characters. Is it literature? Is War and Peace literature? Is Madame Bovary? Is anything written by ANY modern author literature? We all know Dan Brown does not write literature - he writes outlines for screen plays, for instance. I actually don't care. I loved this story and the way it was written. There are innumerable lines to underline and ponder. "Telling the truth should be kept as a last resort, Daniel, even more so to a nun," spoken on Page 253 by my favorite character in the book, the hilarious Fermin Romero de Torres. Or, "The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to imitate the rich," page 198. And, "...what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it," page 225. Most of the negative reviews omit to say that this book is hilarious, time and time again. It is also sad, filled with pathos and violent in places. One sees both the good and terrible side of men and women. The story bogs down somewhat during the long narrative by Nuria Monfort, where we learn important details of the various mysteries and intrigues central to the unraveling of the story. At times here and elsewhere in the book the writing suffers from what I would call TMI (too much information), when less would be better. The story is complicated as are the players, but all to the better. The reader has to "work" a little bit to catch on to the threads of the story, but in the last analysis the mystery is not so hard to solve. Any astute reader can be well ahead of the story teller here, but that does not ruin anything. I do not really know what a gothic novel is, but apparently this is a modern version of "romance mixed with horror." The romance part vastly overshadows the horror part in this story. But the horror is quite graphic and sufficient. The evil character is indeed evil. It's hard to decide who the central character is" Daniel or Julian, as their lives and personalities become intertwined. My major criticism focuses on my confusion about the "voice" of the story. Who really is the narrator? Ostensibly it is Daniel, but...............there are many pages where other voices take center stage. At times I had to read 3 or 4 pages of these other "voices" before I was sure about exactly who was "talking." Carlos Ruiz Zafon does not have as big a problem as Arturo Perez-Reverte about "voice of the story," but Zafon confused me at times. There really is no denouement. Like all good, real stories, all of the players and themes simply merge together at the end, and the epilogues finish off any further questions a reader might have. I found the ending very satisfying. "The Shadow of the Wind" is an enormously pleasurable read. If there were "in between" categories, I would give it a 4.6, but I'll round up the rating to a 5. 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