Carlos Ruiz Zafón

But this is a book that we can read that focuses and centers its whole entire thing in that area.

Yeah, so this one, The Shadow of the Wind, is by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, and it's a mystery set in Barcelona.

Which we will like.

Yeah.

First book you remember falling in love with?

That would probably be Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

That's one of the books that was recommended to me by this customer in Smith's years ago.

And he said to me...

And I think if you are somebody who likes epics, who likes seeing, I mean, I heard people likening it as we were leaving the auditorium to the English patient, something that tells a story across multiple timeframes and around war, which is always a compelling setting for anything when you're dealing with social strife.

And I think also, if you're someone who, like me, enjoys the written works of Carlos Ruiz Zafon, like The Shadow of the Wind, which I absolutely lapped up, and the works of Guillermo del Toro, other things that are set sort of at the end of the Spanish Civil War, like The Devil's Backbone, or during Franco's reign, so Pan's Labyrinth, set in the 40s, I think...

I think you're going to love this.

And as for the melodrama aspect, that's what I go to Spanish texts for.

Yes.

So next month we will be discussing the book The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

Mm.

And we read a d- another book by him called The Shadow of the Wind.

welcome.

I recently read the book The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

I don't know what this is about, but that's one of those poetic-ass titles, which is like, oh, Jesus.

You like those books that are like a chair of bones and ritual.