The Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon Audiobook Excerpt

This is a preview of the digital audiobook of The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, available on at The Shadow of the Wind By Carlos Ruiz Zafon Narrated by Jonathan Davis / 18 hours 4 minutes Barcelona, 1945—just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets o