Thursday, February 27, 2020. Sunny

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Daniel Sempere – Beatriz Aguilar, Julian Carax – Penelope Aldaya, Fermin Romero de Torres – Bernarda

“Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the ‘Cemetery of Forgotten Books’, a labyrinthine library of obscure and forgotten titles. To this library, a man brings his ten-year-old son, Daniel, one cold morning in 1945. Daniel is allowed to choose one book and from the dusty shelves pulls The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax. But as Daniel grows up, several people seem inordinately interested in his find. What brings as a case of literary curiosity turns into a race to find out the truth behind the life and death of Julian Carax and to save those he left behind."

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In the end, I decided to give it three and a half stars. The reason is, I just don’t understand about all the sacrifices so many people made, just for good-for-nothing Julian, who made everybody’s life, including his own, miserable only because of one woman, who he didn’t have the courage to come back for.

This is the second time I read this book. The first time, it was my book. This time, I couldn’t find my own copy, and I so wanted to read it again. It’s a library book this time.