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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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Karthick Vikram | 1 comments It's the book set on European war torn country setting where a boy is allowed to take a book from a secret library by his father, he fell for a blind girl, and after he gets to be a teenager, some mysterious guy wants to buy his book, this led boys quest for books author whose all of the books were burned by a paper smelling man.
Pls help me it had some dark religious tone and also extraordinary subplots like lovestory of the women and guy he saved from the street, his relationship with his father, searching about the author, his love interest who already engaged, blind childhood friend, paper smelling man, PLEASE HELP ME FIND THE NAME OF BOOK.
I studied half book about two or three years ago in my friend Mobile.


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Ficie | 65 comments Could it be The Shadow of the Wind? It was originally written in Spanish. Many of the details coincide (war; European setting;blind woman; secret library).


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bookel | 4018 comments Zafon, Carlos Ruiz. The Shadow of the Wind. Kirkus Review:
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-re...
"...We meet its engaging narrator Daniel Sempere in 1945, when he’s an 11-year-old boy brought by his father, a Barcelona rare-book dealer, to a secret library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Enthralled, Daniel “chooses” an obscure novel, The Shadow of the Wind, a complex quest tale whose author, Julian Carax, reputedly fled Spain at the outbreak of its Civil War, and later died in Paris. Carax and his book obsess Daniel for a decade, as he grows to manhood, falls in and out of fascination, if not love with three beguiling women, and comes ever closer to understanding who Carax was and how he was connected to the family of tyrannical Don Ricardo Aldaya ..."


Ficie | 65 comments Yes, OP has already confirmed to me this is the book he was looking for.


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