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作者:Zafón Carlos Ruiz
书名:The shadow of the wind《风之影》
中文简介:The shadow of the wind《风之影》是西班牙作家卡洛斯·鲁依斯·萨丰在2001年出版的小说,在2004年被翻译成英文(The Shadow of the Wind),运用了魔幻写实主义技巧而写成。
故事发生在1945年至1966年,佛朗哥时期的巴塞罗那,达尼的父亲带十岁的他造访充满着古董二手书的“遗忘书之墓”。依据传统,首度拜访此处的人们可任意挑选一本书,而且要毕生保护它。达尼挑中了一本胡立安·卡拉斯的《风之影》,在当晚读完这本书并费尽心力要找出这位不知名作家的其它作品,但却徒劳无功。在峰回路转下,他找到了拉因·谷柏的相关故事,正巧是胡立安·卡拉斯书中的恶魔角色,拉因·谷柏用尽各种方式买下胡立安的书,并烧毁他们。正当达尼与书中男主角的角色逐渐重叠时,受惊吓的达尼将书放回遗忘书之墓,但是却发现他已经身历书中故事数年之久,这种种对他的生活无时不刻的产生了莫名的威胁…… 书中的各个故事环环相扣,声效俱佳,令人处处惊喜。
英文简介:Barcelona, 1945 - just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.