The Shadow of the Wind
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Barcelona, 1945—A fantastic world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourning the loss of his mother finds support in his like for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an leader named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax’s additional books, it starts to dawn on him, to his horror, that a name has been systematically destroying every copy of every book the man has ever written. Soon the boy realizes that The Shadow of the Wind is as treacherous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its leader’s identity holds the key to an epic tale of murder, madness, and doomed like that a name will go to any lengths to keep secret.
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I selected up this book at the bookstore (I wish I hadn’t wasted my money), as I was looking through it this lady approaches me and tells me it’s fantastic, I should read it and so on. I was hesitant for some reason even though the take in is very cool, the praise from so many additional authors/book critics and the description on the back. So I bought it. Ironically the first 30 pages of the book are entertaining, although I quickly learn that the leader has no clue with regards to like.
I keep reading, waiting and waiting for Zafon to get somewhere, get to a sub-plot or closer to the plot, as a replacement for he goes off on some political nonsense. The guy that gets raped, how is that significant to the tale and it doesn’t fit the theme of the book. He brings in Stalin. There is so much beside the point stuff from dialogue to characters that has nothing to do with the tale. The characters are so black and white (metaphorically), there is no gray, they are one-dimensional, they are either excellent or terrible, all this sentimental crap–I stopped reading at about page 170. I should end but I don’t care, I don’t care what happens. If somebody wants to tell me what happens, please do. I have no patience for this so called tale.
It’s like a terrible movie but I can’t quick forwards.
I also can’t judge that Zafon has been compared to Eco, or Reverte. I don’t reflect so. Zafon must have some relations in the publishing world. Excellent for him.
Also the people that have agreed this book 5 stars, shocking, is this the first book you’ve ever read? Pathetic.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I am a man and no feminist by any stretch. I also count myself a recovering Cathoholic. Cavemen originated Adam and Eve, heaping on their female counterparts the burden of the fall of Eden b/c they were stronger physically if not emotionally. That’s how they got away with spreading that tale. Make no mistake. Any woman will tell you, Gents, might permits us a world of conveniences they don’t have, like the ability to single-handedly leader creation tales and much of history.
Thankfully, we needn’t go on promulgating the lie that we kill women and tear down beauty because, due to some innate bugaboo, we must like things to death. Today modern man must own up, assume his share of blame, and be a man. Equipment in developed countries (apologies, we must question Spain in this regard, as this book started as a bestseller there) has mostly devalued the might difference. Still recklessly chauvinistic tales and male insecurities linger. Normally I only read and do not write reviews but with The Shadow of the Wind my beliefs would not place me alone. I would be guilty by support lacking standing up, stepping in and urging a strong cautionary warning, as I judge the modern male especially must, and we all must as honest dues for the gift of being. Representing one’s self is a tiny fee to pay.
This is a fantastic book. And that’s the problem. Like so many imports, it begs acceptance and then coolly steals the welcome mat. Its detractors are supposed to chalk it up as, at best, simply one more giddy cultural faux paus that leaves U.S. cash registers ringing and American sensibilities with a terrible bout of the flu. Bestseller? I was offended. Take this passage:
“If a doctor had been present perhaps he would have been able to stop the flow away that took [the pregnant teenager]’s life, while she shrieked and scratched at the locked door, on the additional side of which her father wept in silence and her mother cowered staring at her spouse … the sheets and afterbirth were thrown into the boilers …”
I can’t imagine the worst inner city slum urchin in the States doing that to his daughter, regardless of circumstance, but we are supposed to judge he had cause for various reasons I won’t deign to go into here.
There is a all-purpose disdain for female characters throughout, and no I’m not talking about Fermin’s antics which I establish very amusing as a matter of fact. Women’s heads being casually blown off, brutal stabbings, “b*tch” slappings galore (pardon my Espanol). I was terribly yearning to recommend the book on whole to my wife. It seems there is so small unoffensive (or at least cunningly balanced) writing these days. I dutifully wrote off the violence. Then I came to the trite and grizzly murder of JC’s like interest and I said this is not okay. Not fun. We have come a long way since this was excellent entertainment. This is foreign caveman stuff and if we are lulled into believing otherwise it is because we reflect too small of ourselves and have forgotten that shouting ‘no’ out loud is not just a right but a responsibility.
I’m a fan of tragedies, Braveheart, etc. but they have to go down simple and the incomprehensible motives of “the Don” at the turning point of this tragedy I can only tell to insofar as they are ‘foreign’ and backwards, not really arising out of anything attributable to the familiar (could a name, perhaps Spanish, please clarify him better maybe?). This saddened me to no end, as I took three years of Spanish b/c I admire the people and culture! I was gravely disappointed by this book.
A sinister subtext of TSOTW seemed to be a virtual compendium of domestic violence made deceptively gentler and more culturally acceptable to American audiences by Ms. Graves’ masterful translation. I don’t dispute the business sense of the translation. Hey, it’s a best-seller after all. *BUT* I do have distress believing that the book’s rumor has it that wide U.S. readership is properly prepared to have their values besieged when they read this tale. I wasn’t. It can only be taken for what it is: a Spanish import, or we’re in larger distress than we reflect we are if this material goes down lacking a hitch. That’s how globalization subtely erodes progress, by dragging us unwittingly back into the cave. Maybe the translation/cultural-edit was too deft with the exception of the above quoted scene (and you know which one I’m talking about) and possibly the ridiculously cruel and largely inexplicable gratuitous NM killing. These events are in no way redeemed by the book’s end. If you take pleasure in this stuff, watch the nightly news as a replacement for. It’s cheaper by far and I daresay less offensive.
Better yet, Pearl Buck’s The Excellent Planet comes to mind as an even-handed treatment, albeit regarding a different culture, of the variable cruelties inflicted on women by men in less modern times and societies. It is no less blameworthy there, but at least that tale sheds light on believable motives of one all too ungrateful man. The drama is furthermore earned not merely by advancing the plot as melodramatically as the leader could imagine, but by giving a realistic and therefore constructive counter model of the emptiness of one man’s reckless power-mongering.
As for TSOTW, I can HIGHLY recommend the tale as an import with only minor technical reservations as have been mentioned by additional reviews such as the problematic epistolary tack for the concluding third part. To recommend TSOTW as a excellent tale you can get into, like and rally-behind, sadly, I cannot. Otherwise, like me, due to the hardboiled criminal treatment of females (and I’m a crime tale and murder mystery fan!) especially as the plot advancement gets firing on all cylinders, you’ll be asking yourself 2/3 through what has become of our values in this country if this is what constitutes a bestseller! You have been warned.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
My credit card was debited but i have not received this book! Thankyou for your attention in this matter.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This could have been a fantastic novel, but it just fell fleeting.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Book was groundbreaking new. Would buy again from this seller in a minute.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5