The small number of extant editions is subsequently searched out and burned by a mysterious collector. In the first book, just before the Spanish civil war Daniel Sempere, the son of a bookseller who was one of the cemetery’s curators, selected a novel called The Shadow of the Wind by an obscure author, Julián Carax. The quartet’s umbrella title, The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, refers to a focal location: a secret labyrinthine library in Barcelona, where cherished and threatened texts are protected, and from which visitors are allowed to take away one title. And, as we read Zafón’s novel, his characters are reading hundreds more, real and imagined.
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