Gray, clouded sky, ancient houses, defeated souls, people trapped in the past, alleyways, solitude, love in the
darkness,
reality. A road of dreams that takes you to reality. Reading this book is like entering the world you have always dreamed of and feared a little. Daniel has been raised by his father in an old bookstore in nineteenth century Barcelona. In his world, a little
darkness, a little solitude. One dawn, trying to remember his mother who died years before, his father
decides to take him to the site that would change his life. The cemetery of forgotten book. The book that would mark his life was found there. The Shadow of the Wind was the door to his dreams. A book is something more than a mountain of papers, there is something inside and Daniel being so young knew it. Curious and dreaming, he decides to discover the essence of the book, the why, the reasons, something more. The soul of the book because books have souls, but few people know it. The story hidden beneath that book and the others that the author, Julián Carax has written. The fog doesn't leave Barcelona and grows next to the omnipresent author. Love and desire in the darkness, a heated look when your body is frozen. Hatred, rage, harm. . . unavoidable in life. Daniel feels all these sensations and many others that defy description. . .Feelings, life similar to that of Julián, life similar to that of you, of mine, but the majority of times, it remains dark in ourselves. Characters with their own life, in all of them, there is something of you. Frustrated lives, broken dreams, dreams yet to be broken and hope. That doesn't leave.