Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story, ' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers and tutors without quite knowing why. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel. This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset. That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone, changed my life.Anonymous
About This Quote
In this quote, the actress is referring to a book she read called The Shadow of the Wind , a novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. The story revolves around a young boy, Daniel Sempere, and his best friend, Julian Carax, a professor. Carax’s son, Fermin Romero de Torres has been missing for 20 years and the two friends have been trying to find out what happened to him. In the process, they have become entangled in a mystery that dates back to 1943. In her book review of The Shadow of the Wind, the author Arundhati Roy described it as “a strange and beautiful novel about obsession, loss and memory.”
Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
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