the cemetery of forgotten books carlos ruiz zafón

They may have lost his mother long ago, but this book dealer is going to let him in on a secret. His father decides to try and cheer him up. He is eleven years old and finds out that he is no longer able to recall what his mother’s face looked like.

Meanwhile, Daniel is waking up on his birthday. The city sits in the shadows and tries to tend to its wounds. The period is after a war has ended, and now the city of the world is recovering from it all. The time is 1945 and the setting is Barcelona. When one boy chooses to try and get through all of the shadows and the secrets of Barcelona in a time after the war, it is a personal delving into the fictional story that will have you thinking about it for a long time after you have put it down. Read the book that became a sensation in literature around the globe. Since it was published, this novel has not only gathered lots of positive praise and acclaim but also has been put for a number of international awards and even won some! It was the first novel for this author that was for adults It was a wild success and around the world the author was able to sell millions of the copies of the book. The Shadow of the Wind is the first novel in Zafon’s acclaimed Cemetery series. The Angel’s Game was the sequel and the highly anticipated third and the fourth book have since come out as well.

That is when the debut novel in the series came out, depending on where you live and what language you speak. This fictional series was made available to readers for the first time in 2001 and would come out in English and other languages between the 20 period.

He has lived in Los Angeles and worked there ever since he moved there in 1994.Ĭarlos Ruiz Zafon is the creator as well as the author of the Cemetery of Forgotten series. During the day and sometimes the night, he finds work writing scripts when he is not busy writing books. He resides currently in Los Angeles, California. He has written several novels for young adults, including the 1999 book Marina. He has also had the proud moment of one of his books being nominated to receive the Premio Laria. His novel Prince of Mist was able to end up winning him the Edebe literary prize in fiction for young adults. His books have made it to many countries and have been published in at least thirty languages and counting.Ĭarlos was born in 1964 in Barcelona. Carlos Ruiz Zafon is a Spanish author of fiction.

The cemetery of forgotten books carlos ruiz zafón