LITERATURE: The Shadow of the Wind – A nice beginning

Nice writing style.  Zafon brings us a lot of information while intriguing the reader with his opening of a (first person narrator) young boy whose mother has died and whose father owns a used bookstore and offers the boy consolation and discovery in The Cemetary of Lost Books.

Nice thoughts:

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. (p. 9)

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul.  The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. (p. 3)

Nice language use:

…as the city awoke, like a watercolor slowly coming to life. (p. 2)

The man’s oratory could kill flies in midair. (p. 12)

Even so early into this book I can see the writing skill, polished to perfection.  Zafon handles story line, detail, a tad bit of mystery with a nice flair for colloquial yet handsome phrases that make me feel like I’m drinking in the tale.

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One Response to LITERATURE: The Shadow of the Wind – A nice beginning

  1. RoN says:

    I just love the raw emotion that was casted from this novel. If you truly get into the book it will take you to a true time in history with a little of fiction as well

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