卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰(Carlos Ruiz Zafón)1964年生于巴塞罗那,原任职于广告界,后赴美定居,目前在洛山矶从事电影编剧以及文学创作。1993年出版小说处女作《白雪王子》,荣获西班牙重要的「艾德彼儿童文学奖」肯定,接下来几部作品如《午夜皇宫》《九月之光》和《玛丽娜》等,都是极受好评的青少年小说。
The international literary sensation-a runaway bestseller in Spain, rights sold in more than 20 countries-about a boy's quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
Barcelona, 1945-just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona's guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel's father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax's work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona's darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn't find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.
As with all astounding novels, The Shadow of the Wind sends the mind groping for comparisons-The Crimson Petal and the White? The novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte? Of Victor Hugo? Love in the Time of Cholera?-but in the end, as with all astounding novels, no comparison can suffice. As one leading Spanish reviewer wrote, "The originality of Ruiz Zafón's voice is bombproof and displays a diabolical talent. The Shadow of the Wind announces a phenomenon in Spanish literature." An uncannily absorbing historical mystery, a heart-piercing romance, and a moving homage to the mystical power of books, The Shadow of the Wind is a triumph of the storyteller's art.
Translated by Lucia Graves.
“书店的老顾客说,一个人读的第一本好书会在内心留下深刻印记,很少有其它事物能与之相提并论。那些影象、文字撞击的回音,我们以为是陈年往事,实际上却终生陪伴我们,在记忆深处构筑一个神秘地带。不管我们后来读了多少书,看了多少世相,学而又忘记了多少事物,我们迟早都...
评分西班牙人是热情的?冲动的?感性的?容易激动的?如果是,那用来写一部悲剧小说,实在很难和中国人的胃口。 “大故事套小故事,节外生枝的故事。不算宏大叙事的大部头。推动情节发展的不是人物性格,而是作者略显牵强的逻辑。” 近500页的书密密麻麻的印着字,近年来少有的读...
评分在雾霭沉沉的巴塞罗那街头,在黎明的静寂之中,达涅尔被父亲紧紧地抓着小手,欢快地雀跃着。 这是《风之影》的封面,在书店的时候,我就看到过它,可是我没读,在书店的椅子上,要尽量读简短的文字,这是我的习惯。 后来,在朋友家,她说,这本书写得“特别好”,她是这样说...
评分买它不是因为那些花哨的推荐夹页,而是喜欢它的封面,灰白色调中,一个男人手挽一个男孩走在雾霭笼罩下的河边。我喜欢这个场景。 男孩曾是达涅尔,也是胡利安;男人是达涅尔,也曾是森贝雷先生——达涅尔的父亲,一个被作者淡化了的人。我喜欢这位体贴温存的父亲,甚至当我从...
评分“书店的老顾客说,一个人读的第一本好书会在内心留下深刻印记,很少有其它事物能与之相提并论。那些影象、文字撞击的回音,我们以为是陈年往事,实际上却终生陪伴我们,在记忆深处构筑一个神秘地带。不管我们后来读了多少书,看了多少世相,学而又忘记了多少事物,我们迟早都...
A masterpiece. Very captivating story... A boy lives his life to tell the story of a mysterious man who is a living shadow of the character in his book which the boy guards with his own life. It's about a boy looking for answers, only to find himself tr
评分un libro muy especial para mi
评分语言非常美丽,内容非常精彩!
评分语言非常美丽,内容非常精彩!
评分A masterpiece. Very captivating story... A boy lives his life to tell the story of a mysterious man who is a living shadow of the character in his book which the boy guards with his own life. It's about a boy looking for answers, only to find himself tr
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