The Shadow of the Wind

　　一段因追索書中潛藏的靈魂而展開的傳奇旅程。
　　在巴塞隆納的光與影中，人性、愛欲、仇恨重重交疊，飄蕩如風中的幻影。

　　21世紀席捲全球50餘國、狂銷400萬冊的國際文壇颶風
　　一部融合了驚悚、推理、歷史、純愛與存在主義的動人故事

　　書是鏡子，人只能在書裡看到自己的內心。

　　十歲少年達尼在「遺忘書之墓」偶然找到一本胡立安．卡拉斯的小說《風之影》，讀了之後深為著迷，於是開始尋找作者的其他作品，卻發現小說中虛構的惡魔竟現身巴塞隆納街頭，到處搜索、焚毀胡立安的著作。一場單純的文學尋根之旅，意外開啟了通往巴塞隆納黑暗過去的大門。當神祕作者胡立安的輪廓一點一滴浮現，達尼的人生逐漸和他產生重疊，並將身邊的人全都捲入死亡與殺戮的陰影……

　　★本書原文書名為: LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO
　　★本書中譯版《風之影》由圓神出版。

＂Anyone who enjoys novels that are scary, erotic, touching, tragic and thrilling should rush right out to the nearest bookstore and pick up The Shadow of the Wind. Really, you should.＂ --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

＂Wondrous...masterful...The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.＂ --Entertainment Weekly, Editor’s Choice

＂This is one gorgeous read.＂ --Stephen King

＂I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetary of Forgotten Books for the first time...＂

Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

作者簡介

卡洛斯．魯依斯．薩豐（Carlos Ruiz Zafon）

　　1964年生於巴塞隆納，原任職於廣告界，後赴美定居，目前在洛杉磯從事電影編劇以及文學創作。

　　1993年出版小說處女作《白雪王子》，榮獲西班牙重要的「艾德彼兒童文學獎」肯定，接下來幾部作品如《午夜皇宮》《九月之光》和《瑪麗娜》等，都是極受好評的青少年小說。

　　2001年出版《風之影》，隨即席捲西班牙書市，五年來熱潮不退，銷售逾百萬冊，至今仍高居暢銷書排行榜亞軍，魅力遠勝《哈利波特》和《達文西密碼》。2004年，《風之影》先獲西班牙出版協會選為該年度最暢銷小說，後在法國獲頒「年度最佳外國小說」，曾獲此殊榮的西語文學巨擘僅有馬奎斯和瓦加斯略薩。德文版出版一個月即熱賣十萬冊；英文版在英國成為有史以來第一本登上暢銷榜冠軍的西班牙小說，並榮登美國紐約時報暢銷書排行榜。《風之影》已譯成多種語言在全球逾五十國出版。

　　魯依斯．薩豐除了寫作小說、劇本之外，同時也為西班牙「前衛報」和「國家報」撰寫專欄。

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, thirty-nine, grew up in Barcelona and currently lives in Los Angeles. The Shadow of the Wind has spent more than a year on the Spanish bestseller list, much of it at number one, and has sold in more than twenty countries.

Lucia Graves was raised on the island of Majorca in postwar Spain. She has published Spanish-language editions of the work of her father, the poet Robert Graves, and books by Katherine Mansfield and Anaïs Nin.