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En la turbulenta Barcelona de los años 20 un joven escritor obsesionado con un amor imposible recibe la oferta de un misterioso editor para escribir un libro como no ha existido nunca, a cambio de una fortuna y, tal vez, mucho más.
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Grave, classical in form, meticulous and nostalgic.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- contemporarynostalgic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 641
- Publisher
- Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Fischer Verlag, Editorial Planeta
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9783596186440
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Barcelona, 25 de septiembre de 1964-Los Ángeles, 19 de junio de 2020) fue un novelista español. Su obra más famosa es *La sombra del viento,* ganadora de numerosos galardones, y que fue seleccionada en la lista confeccionada en 2007 por 81 escritores y críticos latinoamericanos y españoles entre los cien mejores libros en lengua española de los últimos 25 años. ---------- Carlos Ruiz Zafón (Barcelona, September 25, 1964 – Los Angeles, June 19, 2020) was a Spanish novelist. His most famous work is *The Shadow of the Wind*, winner of numerous awards, and which was selected in 2007 by 81 Latin American and Spanish writers and critics as one of the one hundred best books in
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