5 Quotes & Sayings By Carlos Ruiz Zafon

A prolific writer, best known for his internationally bestselling novel The Shadow of the Wind (originally published as La cenicienta puesta a medianoche), one of the most widely translated books in Spanish, translated into forty-six languages. He has written five other novels, including The Angel's Game , The Cemetery of Forgotten Books , and Prisoner of Heaven . Zafon also writes short stories, essays, and children's books. Born in Spain in 1953, he now lives with his wife in Barcelona Read more

This is his first book for children.

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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond. Carlos Ruiz Zafon