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It was a wonderful read. Started with a 10 year old Daniel, the motherless child of the local rare bookshop owner who stumbles upon a mysterious manuscript in the cemetery of books, to which his father takes him. He meets the Guardian, gets acquainted with a rich book dealer, his blind but attractive niece, gets enamoured with the author of the manuscript, Julian and starts an investigation regarding his life and whereabouts. What he didn't realise was that how much his life parallels the author
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Shadow of the wind is a book that is bound to make an impact. It is packed so much with humanness and hope amid darkness that it connects with the reader and re-emphasizes the circle of life.
A book is an empty vessel into which the reader can pour himself and derive meanings he wants to find. A book chooses you - so claims the author who weaves many lives around a book from the cemetery of lost books in the town of Barcelona torn by the civil war.
Daniel the young protagonist leads a blessed life ...more
A book is an empty vessel into which the reader can pour himself and derive meanings he wants to find. A book chooses you - so claims the author who weaves many lives around a book from the cemetery of lost books in the town of Barcelona torn by the civil war.
Daniel the young protagonist leads a blessed life ...more
The book started with an interesting premise 'The cemetery of forgotten books'. Any bibliographer will vouch and yearn for something like this...a sprawling library of books and words that are perhaps forgotten. But when, I delved in the book, I thought wow. Think of it. You find a book that immediately draws you into it. And you want to find out more about the author. You google right ? If Google doesnt have anything, you will call up the publisher and so on. And, so I kept drawn in the book, w
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Ensimmäinen puoliväli meni ristiriitasissa tunnelmissa, usealta nukahtamiseltakaan ei vältytty mut toinen puolikas meniki sitte yömyöhään lukiessa :)
I met this book the way I met the person who recommended it to me. With a strong disapproval, even with promising abilities. Throughout, the book and the boy returned parallel. Slowly I read, halfway there I was angry at this book, hated it for being so blunt and bare and brambly at the same time. Feared that it would take away something dear to me, a sense of peace, and a vacant place on a shelf of all things esteemed. The latter half, seemed gentle, substantial, durable and dear. For all the l
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