RUIZ ZAFÓN, CARLOS
Barcelona, 1945just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother`s face. To console his only child, Daniel`s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona`s guild of rarebook dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel`s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax`s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona`s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn`t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón és un dels autors més llegits i reconeguts a tot el món. Va iniciar la carrera literària el 1993 amb la novel·la El Príncep de la Boira (Premi Edebé), a la que seguiren El Palau de la Mitjanit, Les llums de setembre (reunits en el volum La Trilogia de la Boira) i Marina. L'any 2001 es va publicar la seva primera novel·la per a adults, L'Ombra del Vent, que es va convertir en un fenomen literari internacional. Amb El Joc de l'Àngel (2008) torna a l'univers del Cementiri dels Llibres Oblidats, que segueix creixent amb la seva darrera novel·la, El Presoner del Cel (2011). Les obres de l'autor han estat traduïdes a més de cinquanta llengües i han conquistat nombrosos premis i milions de lectors als cinc continents.