![]() ![]() Carax was friends with Aldaya’s son Jorge and fell in love with his daughter Penélope, even though this was forbidden by their different social classes. Aldaya, who took an interest in him and paid his private school tuition. The priest tells them that Carax grew up in an abusive home and was mentored by the wealthy and powerful Mr. On Fermín’s initiative, they visit Carax’s school, where they meet his old friend Father Fernando. Fermín uncovers that Nuria was lying when she said she didn’t know Carax well. Needing his investigative talents, Daniel confides his growing obsession with Carax to Fermín, who’s also interested. He falls in love with her, although he knows her father would forbid a relationship with him. On their evening together, Daniel tells her everything he’s learned about Carax and shows her the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. She’s engaged to a young fascist soldier named Pablo, but seems unexcited about the prospect of marriage and agrees to meet Daniel. ![]() Meanwhile, a sinister police officer named Inspector Fumero turns up at the bookstore looking for Fermín, who was a political prisoner during the Spanish Civil War.ĭaniel encounters Tomás’s older sister Bea at her university and is enthralled by her, even though as children they were enemies. Daniel begins to investigate Julián Carax’s past, visiting his childhood apartment building and pressing the caretaker and administrator for details about his family, as well as Nuria Momfort, the secretary of Carax’s publisher, who says she doesn’t know much about him. ![]() He and his father also take on another employee for the bookshop, a homeless man named Fermín who turns out to be an excellent salesman and good at finding rare books. He brings the novel back to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and hides it.įreed from his passion for Clara, Daniel has more time for the normal activities of adolescence, like spending time with his best friend, Tomás. Once in the apartment, he discovers Clara in bed with her music teacher, Adrian Neri, and feels incredibly betrayed. Daniel is worried that the stranger will hurt Clara, at whose house he left the novel, so he goes to retrieve it. Upset, Daniel leaves the house to wander the city streets, where a terrifying stranger approaches him and demands to know where his copy of The Shadow of the Wind is. Several years later, Daniel plans a sixteenth birthday party to which he invites Clara, but she never shows up. His father, as well as the Barcelós’ kindly maid, Bernarda, are skeptical of his overwhelming devotion to an adult woman he will never be with. In order to spend time around her, Daniel spends all his afternoons reading aloud to her in the apartment. In order to examine it, Barceló invites Daniel to his house, where Daniel meets, befriends, and falls in love with Barceló’s blind niece, Clara. Barceló offers to buy the book, but Daniel declines. When they consult another bookseller, the wealthy and well-connected Gustavo Barceló, he tells them that while no one knows exactly who Carax is, his books are becoming increasingly valuable because they have a habit of disappearing. When told he can choose a book to take home, he wanders the library and finds Julián Carax’s The Shadow of the Wind, unsure if he’s guided by “chance or its more flamboyant cousin, destiny.”ĭaniel sees on the book jacket that Carax is a native of Barcelona, but even his father has never heard of the author. The young Daniel is awestruck by the size and scope of the library, and the possibilities for learning it contains. The Cemetery is a secret library about which only the city’s booksellers and literary figures know, that protects books at risk of fading away into oblivion in the real world. Sempere, takes his son Daniel to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. In 1945 Barcelona, a second-hand bookseller, Mr. ![]()
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