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……

　　Barcelona, 1945—just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother’s face. To console his only child, Daniel’s widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into the secret of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a library tended by Barcelona’s guild of rare-book dealers as a repository for books forgotten by the world, waiting for someone who will care about them again. Daniel’s father coaxes him to choose a volume from the spiraling labyrinth of shelves, one that, it is said, will have a special meaning for him. And Daniel so loves the novel he selects, The Shadow of the Wind by one Julian Carax, that he sets out to find the rest of Carax’s work. To his shock, he discovers that someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book this author has written. In fact, he may have the last one in existence. Before Daniel knows it his seemingly innocent quest has opened a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets, an epic story of murder, magic, madness and doomed love. And before long he realizes that if he doesn’t find out the truth about Julian Carax, he and those closest to him will suffer horribly.

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

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 Zafon, 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.