Soon you find out that it is the man with the burned face who is doing this. Someone is systematically destroying every one of the author's books. When Daniel consults his father's colleague Gustavo Barceló, another bookseller, he finds out that his book is one of the only copies of Julián Carax's books still in existence.
It will eventually be explained who this person is. At first you don't know if the man is real or if the fictional character actually came to life. Then a mysterious figure appears, a man with a burned and disfigured face, who bears a strong resemblance to a character in Julián Carax's book, a figure representing the devil. Daniel takes the book home, and as soon as he starts reading it, he is completely absorbed in it and wants to find every one of the author's books. The book he chooses is a gothic novel called The Shadow of the Wind by the unknown author Julián Carax. Daniel's father tells him to select one book and adopt it. The keeper of the Cemetery is an old man named Isaac Monfort, who clearly knows Daniel's father well. Any book-lover will fall in love with the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, and wish it were real. Whenever a bookstore or a library closes, its books end up in the Cemetery. He has always loved books, and, at the beginning of the novel, his father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a labyrinth filled with many halls of books, in a palatial building. Daniel is the son of an antiquarian bookseller, and his mother has died.
The protagonist, Daniel Sempere, is ten years old when the novel begins, and he ages throughout the novel, so he is in his early twenties by the end.
It begins in Barcelona in 1945, in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War and World War II. The Shadow of the Wind is a complex, multi-layered novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, the first of four novels in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books series.
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