Once in the apartment, he discovers Clara in bed with her music teacher, Adrian Neri, and feels incredibly betrayed. Daniel is worried that the stranger will hurt Clara, at whose house he left the novel, so he goes to retrieve it. Upset, Daniel leaves the house to wander the city streets, where a terrifying stranger approaches him and demands to know where his copy of The Shadow of the Wind is. Several years later, Daniel plans a sixteenth birthday party to which he invites Clara, but she never shows up. His father, as well as the Barcelós’ kindly maid, Bernarda, are skeptical of his overwhelming devotion to an adult woman he will never be with. In order to spend time around her, Daniel spends all his afternoons reading aloud to her in the apartment. In order to examine it, Barceló invites Daniel to his house, where Daniel meets, befriends, and falls in love with Barceló’s blind niece, Clara. Barceló offers to buy the book, but Daniel declines. When they consult another bookseller, the wealthy and well-connected Gustavo Barceló, he tells them that while no one knows exactly who Carax is, his books are becoming increasingly valuable because they have a habit of disappearing. When told he can choose a book to take home, he wanders the library and finds Julián Carax’s The Shadow of the Wind, unsure if he’s guided by “chance or its more flamboyant cousin, destiny.”ĭaniel sees on the book jacket that Carax is a native of Barcelona, but even his father has never heard of the author. The young Daniel is awestruck by the size and scope of the library, and the possibilities for learning it contains. The Cemetery is a secret library about which only the city’s booksellers and literary figures know, that protects books at risk of fading away into oblivion in the real world. Sempere, takes his son Daniel to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. In 1945 Barcelona, a second-hand bookseller, Mr.

Shadow of the wind by carlos ruiz zafón