[Publib] book title needed

[Judith Turner]

Could it be The Shadow of the Wind : A Novel by Ruiz Zafon, Carlos; Graves, Lucia (Translator)? The books being destroyed are not by the young narrator, Daniel Sempere, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.  The books that are all disappearing were written by an author whom Daniel discovered when he found one of his works in a very special, mysterious library that tries to give each person the chance to find the one perfect book for them.  

Here's some info from the summary I found in Milwaukee County's Countycat.   

The time is the 1950s; the place, Barcelona. Daniel Sempere, the son of a widowed bookstore owner, is 10 when he discovers a novel, The Shadow of the Wind, by Julian Carax. The novel is rare, the author obscure, and rumors tell of a horribly disfigured man who has been burning every copy he can find of Carax's novels. The man calls himself Lain Coubert-the name of the devil in one of Carax's novels. As he grows up, Daniel's fascination with the mysterious Carax links him to a blind femme fatale with a "porcelain gaze," Clara Barcelo; another fan, a leftist jack-of-all-trades, Fermin Romero de Torres; his best friend's sister, the delectable Beatriz Aguilar; and, as he begins investigating the life and death of Carax, a cast of characters with secrets to hide. Officially, Carax's dead body was dumped in an alley in 1936. But discrepancies in this story surface. Meanwhile, Daniel and Fermin are being harried by a sadistic policeman, Carax's childhood
 friend. As Daniel's quest continues, frightening parallels between his own life and Carax's begin to emerge. 

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay, WI

"Donna Noble has left the library. Donna Noble has been saved." ---- "Silence in the Library"  (Doctor Who, Season 4, Ep. 8)  


--- On Sun, 1/11/09, Ellen Jennings <ejenning at cooklib.org> wrote:
From: Ellen Jennings <ejenning at cooklib.org>
Subject: [Publib] book title needed
To: publib at webjunction.org
Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 4:54 PM




 
 

 

 

 







A patron and her husband both read a
book two or three years ago and are having trouble remembering the title. It
sounds familiar, but I cannot figure out the title, either. 

   

The main character is a writer somewhere
in Europe sometime in the past. He discovers
that someone is destroying his books and starts to track them down. There are
some fantasy elements in the book and they seemed to remember that there was
some sort of conspiracy surrounding the destruction of his works. There was a
tailor in the book who had a son. They remembered a lot of random elements to
the book, but there are the ones that I was able to scribble down. 

   

Please let me know if this rings a
bell for anyone! 

   

Thanks! 

   

Ellen Jennings 

Readers’ Advisor 

Cook Memorial Public Library District 

Libertyville,
 IL 

   

 

   



 

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