~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~BLURB~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his ten-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book and from the dusty shelves pulls The Shadow of the Wind bu Julian Carax. But as Daniel grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. What begins as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind.
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I picked this up because I kept seeing it in lists of the books to read in 2007 and I know a lot of people on here liked it. I thought it was a bit slow to start off with, and it took me a while to get in to it (I think that could be because I had such high expectations of it so was expecting something fantastic right from the very beginning.) About a third of the way through is when I really got in to it though and I could hardly put it down! An excellent book and one of the most descriptive ones I read all year.

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