Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Lost Books', a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles that have long gone out of print. To this library, a man brings his 10-year-old son Daniel one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book from the shelves and pulls out 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Julian Carax.

But as he grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. Then, one night, as he is wandering the old streets once more, Daniel is approached by a figure who reminds him of a character from the book, a character who turns out to be the devil. This man is tracking down every last copy of Carax's work in order to burn them. 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...

I loved this book. It is very well-written and the characters drew me in. Fermin is my favourite, his rhetoric is clear-sighted and contagious, and I also think it would be worthwhile meeting the extremely minor character, Braulio Recolons who runs the pork butcher’s, he sounds like a hoot…. “and has a great talent for both making sausages and composing witty aphorisms.”

I found I kept forgetting just how young and innocent Daniel Sempere really was. In most cases he handled events with the maturity of a much older man, so when he didn't I became irritated with him, and then had to remind myself that he was extremely young.

I highly recommend this book.

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