The Shadow of the Wind (Spanish: La sombra del viento) is a 2001 novel by Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and a worldwide bestseller. The book was translated into English in 2004 by Lucia Graves and has sold over a million copies in the UK alone. Prior to that it had already achieved huge success on mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for weeks, and gaining praise from the German Ex- Vice-Chancellor and Ex-Foreign Minister Jos...
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The Shadow of the Wind (Spanish: La sombra del viento) is a 2001 novel by Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafón, and a worldwide bestseller. The book was translated into English in 2004 by Lucia Graves and has sold over a million copies in the UK alone. Prior to that it had already achieved huge success on mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for weeks, and gaining praise from the German Ex- Vice-Chancellor and Ex-Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. After being translated in 2004 the book was again published in The United States by Penguin Books as well as in Great Britain by Weidenfeld & Nicolson and by Orion Books.
However in his own home city of Barcelona which is vividly depicted in the book Catalan nationalists strongly took issue with Ruiz Zafón for having written it in Spanish rather than Catalan.
Ruiz Zafón's eagerly awaited second novel is a prequel to The Shadow of the Wind and was published in Spanish in April 2008 by Planeta. It has been acquired by Weidenfeld &...
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