The Shadow of the Wind

17 hrs. 59 min.

Language Russian

Author Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Narrator Nikolay Bentslер

The novel begins in 1945 in Barcelona, where the hero, still a ten-year-old boy, encounters a mysterious book that completely changes his life. For the next twenty years, the hero tries to unravel the secrets connected with this book, encountering strange strangers along the way, dazzlingly beautiful women, studying abandoned estates of a cursed lineage, and trying to understand inexplicable circumstances surrounding the lives of people consumed by a burning love—and no less burning hatred. The tangled plot, twisted like a spiral, leads the reader into unknown secrets of the mind, astonishing in its many meanings.

The Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s novel "The Shadow of the Wind" enjoys overwhelming success not only in his homeland—where it has gone through about thirty editions—but also in other countries; it has been translated into more than 20 languages. A book that continues the best traditions of medieval Gothic fiction has been awarded a number of prestigious literary prizes. Zafón’s name places critics in the same row as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown.

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