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Carlos Ruiz Zafón is one of the best-read and most famous authors in the world. He began his literary career in 1993 with The Prince of Mist (Edebé Prize), which was followed by The Midnight Palace, September Lights (available in one volume as The Mist Trilogy) and Marina. In 2001 he published his first novel for adults, The Shadow of the Wind, which soon became an international literary phenomenon. With The Angel's Game (2008) he returned to the universe of The Cemetery of Lost Books which grew further with The Prisoner of Heaven (2011). His works have been translated into over fifty languages and have won numerous prizes and millions of readers across five continents.
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An Interview with Carlos Ruiz Zafón about The Shadow of the Wind
This is your sixth novel, and it has been sold in twenty countries and
translated into several languages. What do you think accounts for its worldwide
appeal? Do you find that readers here in the States respond differently from
Spanish readers?
I think it is all about the story, the characters, the pleasure of the
language and of the imagination, the experience of the read. American readers
respond to The Shadow of the Wind in the very same way as Italian, Spanish,
Norwegian, Australian, French, British, or German readers do. The pleasure of
reading a great story and to experience the characters' adventures is universal.
Daniel promises to show Bea a Barcelona that she's never seen. From the
paintings of Joan Miro to the imaginative architecture of Antoni Gaudí, what is
it about Barcelona that lends itself to fantasy? Do you believe, as Daniel says
to Bea, that "the memory of this city will pursue you and you'll die of
sadness"?
Barcelona provides an enchanting, mysterious, and romantic setting for the
story because many things about the place, its streets, its history, and its
people are unique. It is also...
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