This book will own its chooser, as it is the duty of the chooser to make sure it is available for eternity. So we have the young narrator, Daniel, who, tormented by his sudden realization that he is forgetting his deceased mother’s face, is taken by his father to the mysterious library, and asked to choose a book. The initial construct itself is intriguing and any book lover’s fantasy – “The Cemetery of Forgotten Books” – a place where books are stocked up and kept, which may otherwise have long gone out of circulation, their words a drifting mystery of the author which would no longer reach those it were meant to. An enduringly popular book both in the original Spanish and in its translated version, this is one of those popular thrillers which are deep in characters and setting to qualify as a literary success too. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafónĭespite the Gothic romance genre clichés, this was still so very captivating in mood and setting.
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