Stín větru - 2 CDmp3 (Čte Gustav Hašek)

People, read, even if it gets tough... When in the hungry year of 1945, ten-year-old Daniel, the son of an antiquarian, stumbles upon a peculiar cemetery of books in Barcelona, he becomes captivated by the novel 'The Shadow of the Wind' by Julián Carax. The melancholic boy is enthralled by the story, yearning to learn more about the mysterious writer, and he searches for him with the obsession of a trained detective. Suddenly, strange events begin to unfold around the book, which exists in only one copy. Everyone seems to know something about it. A person even starts tracking the boy, determined to obtain the book at any cost. Moreover, it seems that the work begins to intertwine with the lives of Daniel and his loved ones, as Carax's characters start to seep into the lives of real people... Ruiz Zafón intertwines proven techniques of gothic prose with elements of romantic and coming-of-age novels. The result is a captivating thriller in the style of the magical libraries of Papa Borges, set in the times of heavily tested Spain after the civil war, still gripped by the regime of dictator Franco – and still relying on the purifying power of words. The first part of the novel cycle 'The Cemetery of Forgotten Books' takes listeners through the winding Catalan metropolis and the shadows of modern Spanish history. Shortly after its release, the prose became a bestseller.