"A book is a mirror in which we find only what we already carry within us." Based on the novel, this quote illuminates the personality of the narrator and central character of this story, Daniel Sempere. Is it because he is so passionate for aeuvre of a missing writer, Julian Carax, he eventually discovered that his life is the mirror? In any case the will of the romantic author Carlos Ruiz Zafón, who developed his "Shadow of the Wind" around this amazing parallel between these two characters. Steeped in mystery, the novel packs initially the reader: why someone he seeks to completely remove the Julian Carax aeuvre of literary, Barcelona writer remained little known? It is conducting its investigation that the young Daniel meet people who reveal to him the episodes of the eventful life of Carax. For Daniel, this quest is equivalent to a journey of initiation, since learning to toughen in Barcelona after the war, and to discover the pleasures and the misfortunes occasioned friction with women. Whether to recognize the undeniable romantic richness of this book, one can sometimes feel lost in a plot that has sometimes tend to falter or even liquefy, and without forcing the reader to continually plan ahead for trying to figure out where it goes. His success as a bestseller is probably deserved, but the trend of Zafón exploiting some big strings, such as "love without pity" or "the beautiful and nice youth delivered to the injustice of the wicked of this world" make still slightly Manichean novel that shows some limitations in the psychological approach to his characters. This book contains another mystery, unique to literature. One of the novels for which the reader feels a strong attraction, but still does not operate on her long awaited symbiotic magic. The one that makes reading an exceptional moment. Unless this mirror book has shown me a superficiality preventing me to capture the true depth of the characters? Would I be somewhere wind shadow?
