The Shadow of the Wind

One of the best books I've read in ages. My husband also read it and loved it (which usually we don't share the same reading interests). I would highly recommend this book for the author's engaging writing style and his wonderful development of characters. I felt like I truly knew these characters and was so sad to put it down once I'd finished. Well worth your time!

This is one of the most beautifully written books i've read in a long time.It is intriguing,heartbreaking and frightening all at the same time.It made me want to go visit Spain and walk the same streets that Daniel walks.

4.5/5 stars An astonishingly engaging story within a story type of novel; the passion for books and reading introduced in the first chapter was just an appetizer before all the interconnecting twists and turns. I’ve been having a lot of good lucks lately in reading books outside of epic fantasy—my fav......more

There's probably nothing much I "learned" in the introspective sense, but this is a novel like a novel ought to be. This is an epic film on paper, gloomy and engaging, smokey, noir with crumbling ruins, young love, disfigurment, lust, torture...the stuff of Dumas, DuMauier and, as of late, The Histo......more

:نعم..ثمة سجون أسوأ من الكلمات سجون الذكريات..صقيع الفشل عندما تقفز الشخصيات الخيالية خارج صفحات الكتب..لتصحح مفاهيمك و تنغص حياتك و تفتح عينيك قسرا ا"الكتابة ليست سوي مرآة نرى فيها ما نمتلكه في دواخلنا..و القراءة تحتم علينا إعمال القلب و العقل معا وهما عملتان نادرتان الآن!ا جذبتني؛منذ ان قرأت الريفي......more

This is a book about books, a story about stories. It starts and ends in a library of sorts, themes and plots are echoed across decades, tied together by actors who find their roles changing, and by a pen that links two cycles of the story and has its own tale that started before and goes on beyond.......more

After reading The Shadow of the Wind, I was left with somewhat mixed feelings. On the one hand, this is such a beautifully written book, and is in essence an ode to literature. On the other hand, there are some serious flaws which distracts from the whole experience. The best thing about the book, i......more