![]() ![]() There are a few words I couldn't find at all, and I suspect those were borrowed from Catalan, but the enormous vocabulary of ordinary Spanish words is the real challenge. Why it's difficult The degree of difficulty is almost entirely due to the vocabulary, which is extremely large. ![]() The book never gets dull, and the tension builds right up to the climax. But, whatever it was, it hasn't finished happening, and he finds himself in the heart of it. The more he learns, the more he realizes that something truly monstrous happened back before the war, and the more he wants to know exactly what that was. He makes unexpected friends and enemies, he falls in love, he travels all over Barcelona, he crosses paths with the local police and even tangles with Franco's dreaded secret police. He finds some clues, and he meets some resistance. Initially just from curiosity, Daniel tries to investigate the mystery. Both he and his works appear to have vanished with hardly a trace. He loves it so much, he wants to find more books by the same author, but despite the book being relatively-recently published, he has trouble finding out anything about it or its author. ![]() ![]() In post-WWII Spain, during the time of Franco, Daniel Sempre, the young son of a bookstore owner, comes across a captivating novel titled "The Shadow of the Wind" ( La sombra del viento ) by a Julian Carax. ![]()
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