Summer of 1945, Barcelona, Daniel Sempere, a young boy of 10, is taken to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books by his father, a secondhand book merchant. The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a secret place, where a huge collection of books that have been forgotten or have fallen into oblivion is kept. Here under the auspices of his father and of Sr. Isaac, the guardian of the Cemetery, Daniel chooses a book, The Shadow of the Wind, written by an unknown author, Julian Carax. As from that day, Daniel embarks on a search to find out more about the book, its mysterious author and his life story. This book threads its way into Daniel's life so deeply, and the lives of the author and the reader begin to intertwine.
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