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UPC:720238101309
Condition:Used
Genre:Action & Adventure
Platform:Sega Genesis
Region:NTSC (N. America)
SKU:GEN_EL_VIENTO
———This game is fully cleaned, tested & working. Includes the Disc/Cartridge Only. May have some minor scratches/scuffs.This description was last updated on October 28th, 2020.
| Weight | 8 lbs |
|---|---|
| Condition | Used |
| Product Type | |
| Platform | Sega Genesis |
| ESRB Rating | Not Rated |
| Players | 1 |
| Genre | Action & Adventure |
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It’s difficult to categorize this novel; is it a ghost story, a mystery, a love story, an historical novel, fantasy, or a riveting combination of all? Undoubtedly it is beautifully written and captures some of the flavor of Barcelona in the 1950’s. I found myself rereading certain passages and jotting down quotes because of their sheer beauty or appropriateness. It is definitely not a quick read but a novel to savor. The characters are fascinating, from the young Daniel and his loving and patient father, the irrepressible Fermin, the malevolent inspector, the mysterious Carax. It is novel about the ultimate power of books and of reading. Some comments criticize the use of a letter as part of the solution to the mystery but I think that adds to the impact. There are also negative comments about the treatment of women but this is set in Fascist and Catholic Spain during the first half of the 1900’s. Frankly I found this novel as moving and involving as the great novels of the 19th century and cannot wait to read the other three in the set. I only wish there really did exist such a library of forgotten boks.
A very interesting plot with lots of twists and turns. Half way through the book now and I find myself making all sorts of possibilities for it to end. Lots of new vocabulary for me to look up.
The Shadow of the Wind’s plot revolves around the mystery of an obscure writer named Julian Carax. His novels are the obsession of a horribly disfigured madman, named after a character from Carax’s books. This man who calls himself, Lain Coubert, the name of the devil in one of Carax’s novels, has made it his mission to find and burn each and every book written by the mysterious writer.Daniel Sempere, a boy who develops a fascination for the author after reading one of his novels, starts digging into Carax’s past.. Daniel is determined to uncover each and every secret. Why is someone bent on destroying the work of an author found murdered in an alley? Each and every answer to his questions simply lead to more questions and answers that lead to nowhere. Daniel’s curiousity turns the hunter into the hunted.Zafon’s novel is about obsessions that torture and haunt various people. Some may even describe the novel as macabre, but it also about an intense and desperate love that somehow created a hatred so deep, it surpasses time and even death itself. My best advise is to pay close attention, even to the smallest of details throughout the book. Each and every character plays a pivotal role in the mystery of the infamous novelist, Julian Carax, and the reason why someone would want to rid the world of every novel written by this man.This is a book I have every intention of re-reading. It has all the right ingredients that I look for in a book. The Shadow of the Wind is a compelling.
Daniel found a book that became his life quest. Why did someone burn all of the books and copies that this author had written? Why did every book dealer want to buy Daniel’s book? This story has so many twists and turns with an evil policeman trying to find this author and kill him. Why? Once started this story builds to a crescendo that will surprise the reader! Highly recommend!
This was my second reading of The Shadow of the Wind. I’ve long considered it one of my favorite books. I don’t often re-read a novel, but this one was worth it. My second time around, I saw a whole new depth in the characters. The humor and the love with which this book is written will stay with me for a long time. I’m soon taking a trip to Barcelona, so this set the mood for seeing that beautiful city through the eyes of the colorful characters in this book.
This novel is one of those queer modern European gothics where the supernatural is explained away at the denouement, but never quite to the reader’s satisfaction. Meanwhile through the bulk of the novel, supernatural devices are applied with a lavish hand: a haunted house; a man with no face; a cemetery of forgotten books; and characters who might or might not be dead.If you like novels that explore horror without giving themselves completely up to ghosts, vampires, and werewolves, “The Shadow of the Wind” is a walloping good read. It is of the same old-fashioned genre as Ann Radcliffe’s “The Mysteries of Udolpho,” a type of novel that I thought had been parodied out of existence by Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey.” However, with “The Shadow of the Wind,” Carlos Ruiz Zafón has succeeded in bringing the gothic back to life in the twenty-first century. It creaks ominously along, subplots resurrecting within plots like the multiplying corpses in “Night of the Living Dead.”The first-person narrator is a ten-year-old boy whose father changes his life by taking him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. The boy, Daniel has already had a difficult life, as his mother died of cholera during the Spanish Civil War, and his home town of Barcelona has still not healed from that bloody conflict when this book begins in the summer of 1945.Along with the usual problems puberty brings, Daniel’s choice of book from the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, titled “The Shadow of the Wind” brings him unwel.
This book had everything. Love interests, murder, history, war, intrigue and well written. It wasn’t a book that kept me on the edge of my seat but it did have a unique outcome. I thought I had it all figured out and was getting disappointed. I was happy to be wrong. The descriptions were so good you felt like not only were you there but you also experienced their emotions as well. You can’t speed through this one, you have to take your time and savor the words.
This book is well written keeping the writer in a state of constant curiosity and waiting for what is to come! Mysteriously beautiful!! I recommend it to everyone who enjoys reading about human emotions – pain, terror, fear, self-discovery, hope, love, and happiness.
I loved this book. I was drawn into the story by the very first paragraph, and remained absorbed in it through the last sentence. I am disregarding some newspaper critics’ disparaging comparisons of Zafón to more "literary" authors such as Márquez, Eco and Borges. The Shadow of the Wind is great storytelling, and that’s what matters.The story is vivid. The sense of place is powerful. I was transported, and felt that I was in old Barcelona. The characters are fully drawn, even if a couple of them are romantic stereotypes, such as the blind girl Clara Barceló, who just happened to be a great beauty. I laughed along with Daniel’s cunning friend FermÃn Romero de Torres as he created outlandish but workable plans for solving the mystery of Julián Carax. (Fermin reminded me of the colorful, profane and crafty character Gus McCrae in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove; Fermin was the best character in the story.) I sorrowed with the elderly governess Jacinta, as she recalled being torn away from the only person she cared about, young Penélope Aldaya. I felt Daniel Sempere’s terror of the sadistic police officer Franscisco Javier Fumero. I read the book over a period of several days, and during that time I had strange dreams every night. This is how much the story affected me.Of course no story is perfect. About two thirds through the book, the plot became a bit weak and predictable. I was able to figure out who the mysterious, sinister LaÃn Coubert was long before his true ident.
What is truly wonderful about this book, is that you don’t really need to settle into it. Its interesting right away. You immediately love the characters and get hooked on the mystery. I found myself staying up far too late into the night saying, “Okay, I’ll just read until I know what happens to him” or “Well, I can’t just leave it THERE for the night!”This book is remarkable. The characters are so wonderfully human and flawed that you find yourself relating to so many of them. I felt while reading this book that the story was so important. I wish it was on the syllabus for high school literature classes because you learn about the human experience in a time of war, but also the importance of acceptance and finding kindness in human nature while being genuinely excited to see where the story leads.
Maika –
Set in post-war Barcelona (WWII and Spanish Civil War), The Shadow of the Wind is a magnificently gothic tale about many things, but at the heart of it is the love of books. Hidden in Barcelona is an old and sacred place called The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, known only to the city’s rare book dealers and a select few people they invite over the years. It’s exactly what it sounds like: a home for books that the world has long forgotten. Each person brought to the library is invited to choose a book from its labyrinthine shelves. That book is then theirs to care for and, thus, no longer forgotten. We follow Daniel, the main character of this tale (and the series), as his father introduces him to the library on his eleventh birthday.“This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens…In this place books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader’s hands. In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.â€Daniel selects a book, The Shadow of the Wind by Julian Carax, which drives him to try to track down all the other books written by Carax. It’s an epic tale of books,.
L. Froment –
I stumbled upon this book purely by accident when searching for a book club selection and absolutely fell in love with it. I could barely put it down and read it very quickly, there are so many twists and turns, I actually gasped out loud at least 2-3 times! The author takes a fascinating story set in a time I knew nothing about and really engaged me. His writing style is beautiful. As someone who reads almost exclusively non-fiction books, this book made me understand how truly amazing fiction writing can be. Whenever I come across anyone who is looking for a book suggestion, this is the #1 book on my list.
L Liddle –
This is a novel for lovers of books, mystery, complicated plots and a leisurely exposition of compelling characters and history. A young man’s book shop father takes him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where the boy leaves possessing an unknown novel by a little known author. He becomes obsessed by both book and its mysterious author, Julian Carax. Set mostly in Barcelona, the novel evokes its pre-WW2 charm and the wrenching political dislocation of the time. The boy grows into maturity unflaggingly pursuing his goal of finding Julian Carax.
Chapati –
I stayed up until the wee hours last night finishing this book. After a certain point, I just knew I wouldn’t be able to sleep without finding out what happened next! And, to me, *that* is the mark of a good book- when a person who always needs eight hours of sleep a night forces herself to get by on far fewer hours so that she can read a book that she could just as easily easily finish the next day.The book is translated really well- it didn’t feel even a little bit as though I were reading a translation. The writing is lyrical and beautiful and sets the haunting tone of the novel (except in the scenes, especially those with the unforgettable Fermin, that are truly hilarious). At first, I thought it would be a typical mystery/thriller, but it’s not at all like that. Ruiz Zafon fully utilizes his setting of Barcelona during the revolution and after WWII to make a complicated story that, in the end, is just wonderful.For true bibliophiles, the mere possibility of a place such as the ingeniusly-named Cemetary of Forgotten Books is enough to send a thrill down your back. And the way Ruiz Zafon describes choosing a book, “as though it were waiting for you,” is a feeling I’m sure any booklover has had, on finding and then reading what becomes a much-belovd book.It’s plain to me why this book spent much of a full year on Spain’s best-shop list. And makes me wonder how many other truly marvelous books are out there that I haven’t been able to read because they’re not in Engli.
Jason Stowell –
Wow! This book has so many elements it’s hard to put it in one category. It’s a mystery mixed with Phantom of the Opera style gothic meets Great Gatsby all wrapped up in a coming of age story set in post war Spain. Great characters, but some of the stories within the story go a little long. Overall really fun read!
sb-lynn –
This book was an absolute delight and joy to read.Summary, no spoilers:The book starts out in 1945 in Barcelona, when 11 year old Daniel Sempere wakes up and panics when he discovers that he cannot remember his deceased mother’s face.His father then decides to take him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a wondrous (and magical?) place where Daniel is allowed to pick out one book to keep. He chooses The Shadow of the Wind, a novel by a man named Julian Carax.Daniel discovers that someone is trying to burn all of Carax’s books, and he tries to find out why.Big time adventure ensues, as Daniel tries to figure out the puzzle that is Carax’s life….which at many times mirrors Daniel’s own circumstances.This novel is not only an exciting tale of intrigue and adventure, it is also VERY funny. Daniel has a sidekick named Fermin, who is truly one of the most witty and memorable characters in literature.I cannot recommend this book enough. It was a peak reading experience for me, and I found myself deliberately reading it in small bites so that I wouldn’t finish.
F. Haywood Glenn –
Though I have read a mystery here and there, they have never been my favorite genre, which is why this book took me by surprise. I like historical fiction and often say that when I open a book, I want to be taken to a place and time that I cannot physically visit. The Shadow of the Wind did that and more.This multi-layered mystery begins in 1945 Barcelona, Spain. An antique book dealer, who mourns the loss of his wife, takes his young son, Daniel, to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. Daniel chooses a book entitled The Shadow of the Wind. He loves the book and begins to search for others by the same author. A search that proves futile but ignites an interest in the author.This could also be called a coming of age story because as Daniel experiences all the nuances of growing into an adult male, he is consumed with unfolding the mystery of the author, Julian Carax, and why his books are being destroyed. This is not one of those mysteries in which the reader can guess who is or is not the villain. I was continuously surprised by the twist and turns of the novel.In Daniel’s quest to solve the mystery, we are taken back to turn of the century Barcelona and the aftermath of a civil war. The proses are poetic and move fluently. This was an absolutely great read, beautifully written and captivating from the very first page. I couldn’t put it down.
Elizabeth H. Cottrell –
What a remarkable and unusual book! I was hooked from the moment I read these two reviews:From Stephen King: “If you thought the true gothic novel died with the nineteenth century, this will change your mind. This is the real deal, a novel full of cheesy splendor and creaking trapdoors, a novel where even the subplots have subplots…This is one gorgeous read.”From the New York Times Book Review: “Gabriel Garcia Marquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges for a sprawling magic show, exasperatingly tricky, and mostly wonderful…”I simply cannot improve on these two testimonials. Since the original was in Spanish, we owe a huge debt to the translator, because the descriptive language was marvelous:”…we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.”Speaking of life with his father after his mother’s death, the teenaged protagonist, Daniel, says: “Six years later my mother’s absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.”On striking a match to light a candle in a long-abandoned mansion, Daniel observes, “A copper-colored bubble lit up in my hands and revealed the dancing shapes of the walls that wept with tears of dampness, the fallen ceilings and dilapidated doors…[and much later in the garden] The air smelled of weeds and wet earth. The stone, dark and slimy with rain, shone like the skeleton of a huge reptile.”.
Yayita –
I have always gravitated towards Sci-fi book and found historical fiction to be a bit too slow paced for my taste. So I was surprised how easy I got hooked to this book and couldn’t put it down. The description and depiction of Barcelona is dead on, I studied abroad in Barcelona and can attest to this. The characters are complex and beautiful. Absolutely recommend this book to anyone.
Richard Seltzer –
This is a book about books — love of and obsession with books. Echoes of The Club Dumas by Perez-Reverte, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, Le Mystere Henri Pick by Foenkinos.p. 483″As I write these words on the counter of my bookshop, my son, Julian, who will be ten tomorrow, watches me with a smile and looks with curiosity at the pile of sheets that grows and grows, convinced, perhaps, that his father has also caught the illness of books and words.”p. 484″Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offrs us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read , we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readrs are becoming more scarce by the day.”The author conjures up new characters (often caricatures) one after the other at a dizzying rate, each with bizarre and intriguing backstories, that intersect in unexpected ways. Then those stories are revealed to be riddled with lies and the lies with other lies.Even in translation, the turns of phrase are delightful.p. 165 “I suddenly thought that, despite herself, Nuria Monfort exuded a certain air of the femme fatale, like those women in the movies who dazzled Fermin when they materialized out of the mist of a Berlin station, enveloped in halos of improbable light, the sort of beautiful women whose own appearance bored them.”Enjoy.