Der Schatten des Windes.

The Shadow of the Wind is a novel by the Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafón . It was founded in 2001 in Spanish under the title La Sombra del Viento and 2003 in Insel Verlag in the translation of Peter Schwaar first published in German. The novel has been translated into 36 languages and sold around ten million copies. [1] The focus of the action are youth and early adult life of Daniel Sempere in Barcelona (Catalonia Spain) in the period from 1945 to 1966. Daniel, son of a bookseller, pushes 1945 a him fascinating book and on his strangely enough almost unknown author, he on the initially random and then always hires more systematic research. In the gradually revealed by Daniel biography of the author, Julián Carax, to moral decay and unpunished crimes connect from the period around 1920 with the crimes from the time of the Spanish Civil War after 1936 and the Franco dictatorship accompany this shadow after 1945 and master the protagonists through the generations - until they actively engage with them.