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Carlos Ruiz Zafón


Born
in Barcelona, Spain
September 25, 1964

Died
June 19, 2020

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Genre
Literature & Fiction, Mystery & Thrillers, Historical Fiction

Influences
Balzac, Charles Dickens, Benito Pérez Galdos, Eduardo Mendoza, Arturo ...more


Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind). The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish in the last twenty-five years, made in 2007 by eighty-one Latin American and Spanish writers and critics.

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Average rating: 4.2 · 1,405,372 ratings · 122,660 reviews · 61 distinct works • Similar authors
The Shadow of the Wind (The...
4.31 avg rating — 747,487 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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The Angel's Game (The Cemet...
4.03 avg rating — 190,619 ratings — published 2008
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The Prisoner of Heaven (The...
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4.15 avg rating — 120,879 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions
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Marina
4.14 avg rating — 101,364 ratings — published 1999 — 6 editions
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El laberinto de los espírit...
4.54 avg rating — 67,998 ratings — published 2016 — 153 editions
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El príncipe de la niebla (N...
3.80 avg rating — 69,767 ratings — published 1993 — 157 editions
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The Midnight Palace (Niebla...
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3.64 avg rating — 33,317 ratings — published 1994 — 21 editions
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The Watcher in the Shadows ...
3.84 avg rating — 27,353 ratings — published 1995 — 31 editions
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The City of Mist
3.95 avg rating — 23,182 ratings — published 2020 — 3 editions
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The Rose of Fire (The Cemet...
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Series by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Shadow of the Wind The Angel's Game The Prisoner of Heaven El laberinto de los espíritus
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“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
tags: books, reading, truth
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“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind
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“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
tags: inspirational, soul, spiritual-growth
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