Every month the readheads pick one book that all three of us read and review. Our book for November is Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s The Shadow of the Wind.
Synopsis from Publishers Weekly:
The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, The Shadow of the Wind, by Julián Carax. The novel is rare, the author obscure, and rumors tell of a horribly disfigured man who has been burning every copy he can find of Carax’s novels. The man calls himself Laín Coubert-the name of the devil in one of Carax’s novels. As he grows up, [...] he begins investigating the life and death of Carax [...] Officially, Carax’s dead body was dumped in an alley in 1936. But discrepancies in this story surface. As Daniel’s quest continues, frightening parallels between his own life and Carax’s begin to emerge.
Have you guys read The Shadow of the Wind? If so, please tell us what you thought in the comments! Later this month we’ll post our collective reviews of this book. We encourage y’all to read it too!
Updated 12/01/09:
Check out our reviews: Kim’s, Ranjana’s, and Sina’s.
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I loved this book and I hope the sequel is just as good!
I actually just received a copy of The Angel’s Game for Christmas from Sina, so I will definitely be posting how it lives up to The Shadow of the Wind!
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