La Sombra del Viento by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I sincerely have no idea of how to explain how this book makes me feel, there very few book in my wholw life that have given me this sensation...and most of the times I´ve always finished but not explaining exactly the great impression that they have left in my heart and soul, and I just try to maybe not communicate exactly how I feel, because after all "a book is a mirror of the reader", so maybe that´s the reason why it has always been so difficult to me saying what a really good book has offered me as a gift in my life.

I'd like to translate the quotes to english so you have at least a drop of what I mean, but in reality this is such a beautiful book that I wouldn´t dare to make an opiniated translation of something that would end up so arrhythmic, that may damage it, instead of make honour to it's name.

There are too many quotes to publish here but not enough of me like to choose what are the ones to put in here, as the author says: " A book is a mirror of the reader" and if I upload too many quotes you would end up knowing more of me than what I'm willing to give yet.
Let's try by just telling of what this story is about, given that I'm making myself a mess trying to figure out how to explain what this book has taught me, so here it goes.

CHARACTERS

We have character of different stages of time: We have Daniel Sempere, Fermín Romero de Torres, Beatriz Aguilar, Tomás Aguilar, Clara Barceló, Gustavo Barceló, and from another decade: Julian Carax, Javier Fumero, Jorge Aldaya, Penelopé Aldaya, Miguel Moliner and Nuria Momfort, and a few other decade behind: Sophie Carax and Ricardo Aldaya.

At first glimpse, the reader has no clue of how all of these characters are going to be intertwined, but when you get there you will be officially open-mouthed of how the mistakes we make in past tend to repeat above themselves or some others will be the ones to paying them for us.

Daniel Sempere
The kid from the cover page, son of a librerian, who introduces to the Cementery of the forgotten books, where in its corridors he'll discover "The shadow of the wind" and he'll be so amazed an thrill by it that his whole life is about to turn arround and he has no idea, with zero clues that the story of that book will be just the prelude of his very own story.

Giving the appearing of a strange person in his life asking him to buy the copy of "The shadow of the wind", Daniel will be adventured in looking and revealing the truth about the story of the author, finding out too many secrets that were buried a long time ago, but that there was still someone lurking in the dark prepared to finish what he just started a long time ago.

Julián Carax

An author born in tragedy and ignorant of his real life, marked for the mistakes of his parents and condemned to pay for them in the most of terrible ways, becoming soon enough in just a horrend character of one of his endearing books, looking for nothing more to destroy the reason of his disgrace, but came to an end when he discovers a brief light of what he could have been, given the opportunity.

STAGE

Made in the life of a Barcelona whipped by civil and world war, where everyone must took care of themselves and trusting no one, taking the reader to such as a gothic city cover of mist and charm.

I can not get myself to speak more of this story at risk of giving you spoilers, but in a very simple way, I can tell you that the book actually is nothing but the retelling of a story that should end up years ago before the book got to the hands of Daniel and how he and his family and friend will be the ones to take the matter in hands to release the story of it horrible fate.

But in the meanwhile of doing so, the book will teach you more of what you pay for, giving you lessons of life and drops of wisdoms that you will adore with your very core.

It's the more I can say so far.

Recommend it til the end and beyond, definitely buying the next three book of this beautiful masterpiece of "The cementery of the forgotten books"