The Shadow of the Wind

　　Barcelona, 1945—A great world city lies shrouded in secrets after the war, and a boy mourningthe loss of his mother finds solace in his love for an extraordinary book called The Shadow of the Wind, by an author named Julian Carax. When the boy searches for Carax's other books, it begins to dawn on him, to his horror, that someone 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 dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget, for the mystery of its author's identity holds the key to an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love that someone will go to any lengths to keep secret.

　　Author Biography: Carlos Ruiz Zafon lives in Barcelona with this wife.

　　Lucia Graves is the author and translator of many works and has overseen Spanish-language editions of the poetry of her father, Robert Graves.

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。

本書中譯本《風之影》由圓神出版。