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* RomanticFalseLead: Clara is introduced as Daniel love interest in the story, but after the PrimalScene she pretty much disappears from the story, only making a couple of brief appearances.
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* WeUsedToBeFriends:
** Jorge Aldaya and Julián used to be best friends in school, but after the latter flees Barcelona after his affair with Penélope, Jorge's sister, is discovered, they loose all contact; then after his family's name falls into ruin, Jorge's father makes him swear to kill Julián to avenge their family.
** Mirroring the above example, Daniél and Tomás are best friends until the former gets involved with the latter' sister, Bea; by the end of the book their friendship has been damaged and Tomás goes on to live in Germany, never speaking with Daniél again.
** Jorge Aldaya and Julián used to be best friends in school, but after the latter flees Barcelona after his affair with Penélope, Jorge's sister, is discovered, they loose all contact; then after his family's name falls into ruin, Jorge's father makes him swear to kill Julián to avenge their family.
** Mirroring the above example, Daniél and Tomás are best friends until the former gets involved with the latter' sister, Bea; by the end of the book their friendship has been damaged and Tomás goes on to live in Germany, never speaking with Daniél again.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Julián and Penélope fall in love, but they turn out to be half-siblings from their father's side]].
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* WhamLine: "In seven days [[spoiler: I will be dead.]]"
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Daniel ends with a caring wife and a lovely child ten years after the story. And he only needed to be beaten up twice, scared by a weird man, being threatened by the goverment, and be shot to get it.]]
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* EarnYourHappyEnding: EarnYourHappyEnding:
** [[spoiler: Daniel ends with a caring wife and a lovely child ten years after the story. And he only needed to be beaten up twice, scared by a weird man, being threatened by the goverment, and be shot to get it.]]]]
** Even [[spoiler:Julián gets his will to live restored by Daniel, and gets to start writing again]].
** [[spoiler: Daniel ends with a caring wife and a lovely child ten years after the story. And he only needed to be beaten up twice, scared by a weird man, being threatened by the goverment, and be shot to get it.
** Even [[spoiler:Julián gets his will to live restored by Daniel, and gets to start writing again]].
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* InformedAttractiveness: Nuria is described many times throughout the novel as very attractive, even in her older years; she is even hit on and sexually harassed by her crooked new boss.
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* HospitalEpilogue: The last chapter of the book. [[spoiler:Everyone is at the hospital visiting Daniel after he needed to be revived.]]
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* SnowMeansDeath: During the last part of the story a strange snowstorms hits Barcelona out of nowhere. [[spoiler: And is during this storm that both Daniel and Fumero died. (But Daniel gets better).]]
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* SnowMeansDeath: During the last part of the story a strange snowstorms snowstorm hits Barcelona out of nowhere. [[spoiler: And is during this storm that both Daniel and Fumero died. (But Daniel gets better).]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Miquel Moliner]] sacrifices himself for Julián by pretending to be him and [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} shooting two police officers.]]
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* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Miquel Moliner]] sacrifices himself for Julián by pretending to be him and [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} shooting two police officers.]]
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Tomás delivers a something along this line to Daniel, when he starts seeing [[spoiler: his sister]].
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Daniel gets one from [[spoiler: Tomás delivers a something along this line to Daniel, when he starts seeing [[spoiler: his sister]]. sister.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Daniel ended in the end of two of these. Fermín algo got one from Fumero.
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* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Daniel says that finding The Shadow of the Wind in the cementery felt like the book was actually waiting for him since before he was even born. When [[spoiler: Beatriz]] chooses a book to take out, she says the exact same thing.
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** Fumero might be considered a retroactive one. When he first introduces himself, he shows his ID that gives his full name as ''Francisco Javier Fumero''. So if you pay attention [[spoiler: you might not be taken by surprise that one of Julian former school friends was named Javier]]
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* GiveMeASword: In the final fight Fumero lost his gun during a fight with [[spoiler: Julian]] and couldn't find it when he got the upper hand. So he ordered his subordinate Palacios to hand him his gun. [[spoiler: But he refused.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Daniel and Bea'son. Fermín as well ended with four kids.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Daniel and Bea'son.Bea's son. Fermín as well ended with four kids.]]
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* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: Santa Lucia's Asylum. Where all the old homless(and sometimes mad)people of Barcelona end.
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* DevelopmentHell: In-Universe. Master Neri, Clara's Piano teacher, has been composing a symphony for some time. It remained in that stage during all the years that Daniel visited Clara. Ten years later and it kept in progress.
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* DevelopmentHell: In-Universe. Master Neri, Clara's Piano teacher, has been composing a symphony for some time. It remained in that stage during all the years that Daniel visited Clara. Ten years later and it kept in progress.after the story, we are told he is still working on it.
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Palacios refusing to give his gun to Fumero.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Palacios refusing to give his gun to Fumero.Fumero for killing Daniel.]]
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* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Daniel, wanting to make sure that Clara is safe, ended interrupting one of her "classes" with master Neri. This earns Daniel his first beatdown of the book.
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* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Daniel, wanting to make sure that Clara is safe, ended interrupting one of her "classes" with master Neri. This earns Daniel his first beatdown of the book.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The Montblanc Pen Daniel gets as a birthday present on his sixteenth birthday.
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** Fermín himself is introduced just as a homeless man asking Daniel to let him enter the house to avoid the rain. And then helping him after he is beaten up. He ended being hired by Daniel's father in the following chapters.
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* MadeOfIron: Fermín, who, after being severely beaten by Inspector Fumero, recovers rapidly and immediately starts groping the nurse.
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* {{Malaproper}}: La Bernarda. She believes that Barceló's agnosticism is some kind of illness in his throat.
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** La Bernarda. She believes that Barceló's agnosticism is some kind of illness in his throat.
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* MeaningfulEcho: "The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours..." "...except your dreams." Between [[spoiler: Julián and Miquel, both as children, and then moments before Miquel dies.]]
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* MeaningfulEcho: MeaningfulEcho:
** "The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours..." "...except your dreams." Between [[spoiler: Julián and Miquel, both as children, and then moments before Miquel dies.]]
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* NoNameGiven: Fermín Romero de Torres is an alias, of course. We never do find out his real name.
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** A newspaper in the novel gives his name as Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete. Given the newspaper gets his informations from Fumero, it could actually be the real one - in fact, the article bills the guy named Alcayete from Cáceres, Extremadura, which is precisely the place Fermín himself mentions later as his native town.
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* ThatManIsDead: Late in the book we confirm that Fermín Romero de Torres is not the man's real name. But he confesses to Daniel that it might as well be now, saying that the other man was tortured to death in Montjüic.
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* ThatManIsDead: ThatManIsDead:
** Late in the book we confirm that Fermín Romero de Torres is not the man's real name. But he confesses to Daniel that it might as well be now, saying that the other man was tortured to death in Montjüic.
** Late in the book we confirm that Fermín Romero de Torres is not the man's real name. But he confesses to Daniel that it might as well be now, saying that the other man was tortured to death in Montjüic.
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** While Daniel and Fermín where investigating, they stopped in a restaurant where a man was impressed by how much Fermín could it, and was seen on their way back in the train laughing at Fermín discussing with some nuns. He turned out to be [[spoiler: one of Fumero's henchmen, Palacios, that was following them.]]
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* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: Daniel and Bea'son. Fermín as well ended with four kids.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Fructuós Gelabert was a pioneering film maker from Barcelona that made what is considered the first Spanish movie with a plot. Apparently he funded this by getting paid by excentric millionaire Jausà in exchange of filming his mansion [[ItMakesSenseInContext so he can catch the spirit of his cuban lover]], and when he disapears, by a huge check from Mr. Aldaya to never mention the matter again.
* BeenThereShapedHistory: Fructuós Gelabert was a pioneering film maker from Barcelona that made what is considered the first Spanish movie with a plot. Apparently he funded this by getting paid by excentric millionaire Jausà in exchange of filming his mansion [[ItMakesSenseInContext so he can catch the spirit of his cuban lover]], and when he disapears, by a huge check from Mr. Aldaya to never mention the matter again.
* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: Santa Lucia's Asylum. Where all the old homless(and sometimes mad)people of Barcelona end.
** The [[ProductPlacement Sugus candy]] that Fermín gives Daniel to calm him down.
* ChekhovsGunman: Fermín himself is introduced just as a homeless man asking Daniel to let him enter the house to avoid the rain. And then helping him after he is beaten up. He ended being hired by Daniel's father in the following chapters.
** In one chapter Daniel recounts how he met his friend Tomás when Daniel insulted his sister Beatriz and Tomás punched him. [[spoiler: She ended having a larger role on the story than her brother, ending as Daniel's romantic interest and eventual wife.]]
** While Daniel and Fermín where investigating, they stopped in a restaurant where a man was impressed by how much Fermín could it, and was seen on their way back in the train laughing at Fermín discussing with some nuns. He turned out to be [[spoiler: one of Fumero's henchmen, Palacios, that was following them.]]
** Fumero might be considered a retroactive one. When he first introduces himself, he shows his ID that gives his full name as ''Francisco Javier Fumero''. So if you pay attention [[spoiler: you might not be taken by surprise that one of Julian former school friends was named Javier]]
* ChekhovsGunman: Fermín himself is introduced just as a homeless man asking Daniel to let him enter the house to avoid the rain. And then helping him after he is beaten up. He ended being hired by Daniel's father in the following chapters.
** In one chapter Daniel recounts how he met his friend Tomás when Daniel insulted his sister Beatriz and Tomás punched him. [[spoiler: She ended having a larger role on the story than her brother, ending as Daniel's romantic interest and eventual wife.]]
** While Daniel and Fermín where investigating, they stopped in a restaurant where a man was impressed by how much Fermín could it, and was seen on their way back in the train laughing at Fermín discussing with some nuns. He turned out to be [[spoiler: one of Fumero's henchmen, Palacios, that was following them.]]
** Fumero might be considered a retroactive one. When he first introduces himself, he shows his ID that gives his full name as ''Francisco Javier Fumero''. So if you pay attention [[spoiler: you might not be taken by surprise that one of Julian former school friends was named Javier]]
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: The casual mistreatment of women which was true during the fifties in Spain. One older (and even more dissonant) woman talking about Julian's dad says that while she understand that a man must hit his wife sometimes for her to obey him, he just hit her out of nowhere.
* DevelopmentHell: In-Universe. Master Neri, Clara's Piano teacher, has been composing a symphony for some time. It remained in that stage during all the years that Daniel visited Clara. Ten years later and it kept in progress.
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Mr. Aldaya decided to jump from his ship and being eaten by sharks on his way to Argentina.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Daniel ends with a caring wife and a lovely child ten years after the story. And he only needed to be beaten up twice, scared by a weird man, being threatened by the goverment, and be shot to get it.]]
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: When Daniel and Fermín goes to San Gabriel to look into Julian's past, the first priest they encounter there happens to be a former friend of him. [[spoiler: And they were also friends with Fumero.]]
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: Daniel ends with a caring wife and a lovely child ten years after the story. And he only needed to be beaten up twice, scared by a weird man, being threatened by the goverment, and be shot to get it.]]
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: When Daniel and Fermín goes to San Gabriel to look into Julian's past, the first priest they encounter there happens to be a former friend of him. [[spoiler: And they were also friends with Fumero.]]
* ForeignCultureFetish: Barceló is an great admirer of the XIX century, to the point of dressing in the old-fashioned style and using a monocle and pipe, both for show.
* FullNameBasis: Fermín Romero de Torres. When Daniel mentions him, nine out of ten would be by his full name.
* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: both Daniel and Fermín ended like this with their respective interests]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Palacios refusing to give his gun to Fumero.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Palacios refusing to give his gun to Fumero.]]
* HighClassGlass: Barceló, as part of his admiration for the XIX century.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco Franco's]] shadow can be felt [[GreaterScopeVillain all over the book]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco Franco's]] shadow can be felt [[GreaterScopeVillain all over the book]].
* IHaveManyNames: Fermín. We know that that's not his name. And Fumero at one point calls him his "friend of the thousand names."
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** Don Ricardosees saw Jorge as this.this.
** Mr Aguilar actually instructed Tomás' tutors to act as if he were stupid.
** This is just one of the many layers of friction between Don Antoni and his son Julián.
** When the Aldaya's fortune began to go down, some people believed that Don Ricardo was just an idiot that wasted what his father founded.
** Nuria's former boss, Cabestany, said that his son would bankrupt his Publisher House in six months after his death. She said he was really optimistic, it took two months.
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** Mr Aguilar actually instructed Tomás' tutors to act as if he were stupid.
** This is just one of the many layers of friction between Don Antoni and his son Julián.
** When the Aldaya's fortune began to go down, some people believed that Don Ricardo was just an idiot that wasted what his father founded.
** Nuria's former boss, Cabestany, said that his son would bankrupt his Publisher House in six months after his death. She said he was really optimistic, it took two months.
* LoveMakesYouEvil: Fumero first attempt to murder someone was inspired by unrequited love.
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* Malaproper: La Bernarda. She believes that Barcelós agnosticism is some kind of illness in his throat.
** When Fermín explains to Rociíto that he hasnt "visited" her as frequently is because of monogamy. She responds that maybe some penicillin might help with that.
* MeaningfulEcho: "The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours..." "...except your dreams." Between [[spoiler: Julián and Miquel, both as children, and then moments before Miquel dies.]]
** When Fermín explains to Rociíto that he hasnt "visited" her as frequently is because of monogamy. She responds that maybe some penicillin might help with that.
* MeaningfulEcho: "The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours..." "...except your dreams." Between [[spoiler: Julián and Miquel, both as children, and then moments before Miquel dies.]]
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Daniel ended in the end of two of these. Fermín algo got one from Fumero.
* NouveauRiche: The industrial period.
* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Daniel, wanting to make sure that Clara is safe, ended interrupting one of her "classes" with master Neri. This earns Daniel his first beatdown of the book.
* RunningGag: Any drink that Fermín prepares tastes like diesel.
* ShipperOnDeck: Both Fermín and Mr. Sempere are really glad of Daniel's "date" with [[spoiler: Bea.]]
* ShoutOut: Barceló referenced Theatre/{{Pygmalion}} when he hired Bernarda. Even stating that she would be his Eliza, and he would be her Prof. Higgings.
* SnowMeansDeath: During the last part of the story a strange snowstorms hits Barcelona out of nowhere. [[spoiler: And is during this storm that both Daniel and Fumero died. (But Daniel gets better).]]
* ShipperOnDeck: Both Fermín and Mr. Sempere are really glad of Daniel's "date" with [[spoiler: Bea.]]
* ShoutOut: Barceló referenced Theatre/{{Pygmalion}} when he hired Bernarda. Even stating that she would be his Eliza, and he would be her Prof. Higgings.
* SnowMeansDeath: During the last part of the story a strange snowstorms hits Barcelona out of nowhere. [[spoiler: And is during this storm that both Daniel and Fumero died. (But Daniel gets better).]]
* ThatManIsDead: Late in the book we confirm that Fermín Romero de Torres is not the man's real name. But he confesses to Daniel that it might as well be now, saying that the other man was tortured to death in Montjüic.
** Lain Coubert character has shades of this as well. Not only he doesn't want to remember anything about his previous life, [[spoiler: but wants to erase it as well by burning his books.]]
** Lain Coubert character has shades of this as well. Not only he doesn't want to remember anything about his previous life, [[spoiler: but wants to erase it as well by burning his books.]]
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* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Julián, after finding out that Penélope died]].died, even worse is that she died with their child as the gravestone marks]].
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Again, Fumero, who always seems to be on the winning side.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Again, Fumero, who always seems to be on the winning side.
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* FakeNationality: InUniverse. At one point before the story, Fermín presents himself as being Cuban.
* FreudianExcuse: Literally: according to Miquel, Fumero told him that his mother abused him sexually, which in his opinion may explain everything which came after.
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** A newspaper in the novel gives his name as Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete. Given the newspaper gets his informations from Fumero, it could actually be the real one - in fact, the article bills the guy named Alcayete from Cáceres, Extremadura, which is precisely the place Fermín himself mentions later as his native town.
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Julián didn't go mad from grief upon Penélope's death. Rather, it was upon its discovery of the her grave.
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* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: [[spoiler: Julian and Nuria's friendship has shades of this, particularly their time together in France]].
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* BookEndsBookEnds: A Zafón trademark, along with the FirstPersonSmartass narrative.
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** A newspaper in the novel gives his name as Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete. Given the newspaper gets his informations from Fumero, it could actually be the real one - in fact, the article bills the guy named Alcayete from Cáceres, which is precisely the place Fermín mentions later as well one that Fumero invented.his native town.
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''The Shadow of the Wind'' is a 2001 best-selling mystery novel by Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Set in Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War, the story follows Daniel, who, as a young boy, discovers a long-forgotten book in a secret library entitled ''The Shadow of the Wind'' by Julián Carax. Daniel tries to seek out other books by the author, but can find nothing and no information on Carax himself. Then he hears stories of a strange man calling himself Lain Coubert, the name of the [[{{Satan}} devil]] in Carax's book, who is seeking out and burning all copies of the mysterious author's novels.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Miquel Moliner.
* AnimalMotifs: Fumero is associated with insects: cold, calculating, heartless.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Tomás Aguilar devotes his time to building things like the "aerostatic dart." Daniel points this out.
* BigEater: Fermín, despite being described as underweight, has an incredible appetite.
* BookEnds
* ChekhovsGun: The Montblanc Pen Daniel gets as a birthday present on his sixteenth birthday.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Fermín is covered in scars that are revealed to be the result of this.
* CreepyChild: Inspector Fumero, naturally, who used to capture cats and pigeons and torture them for hours. Julián was a milder version.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Julián's lover dies in childbirth]].
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Julián, after Penélope dies]].
* DisabledLoveInterest: Clara, Gustavo Barcelo's blind niece, was the object of Daniel's teenaged affections.
* FramingDevice: A significant part of Julián and Miquel's story is told through Nuria's letter to Daniel (which was sent [[spoiler: after she was murdered]].)
* HeroesWantRedheads: Daniel for [[spoiler: Beatriz]].
* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler: Julián Carax was Ricardo Aldaya's son (and therefore Jorge and Penélope's half-brother)]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Miquel Moliner]] sacrifices himself for Julián by pretending to be him and [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} shooting two police officers.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Miquel and Julián seemed to be this, although it's more apparent on Miquel's side.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rociíto proves to be one at the end of the story.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Tomás delivers a something along this line to Daniel, when he starts seeing [[spoiler: his sister]].
* InadequateInheritor: Don Ricardo sees Jorge as this.
* IOweYouMyLife: Fermín will do anything he can for Daniel and his father as they have taken him in from the street and gave him a job, making him a respectable citizen again.
* JekyllAndHyde: A variant with [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] who, after his DespairEventHorizon, takes on the name of Laín Coubert, [[spoiler: a character he himself created.]]
* LadykillerInLove: Fermín to Bernarda.
* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler: Julián gets Penelope pregnant the first time they have sex, same goes for Daniel and Bea]].
* TheLostLenore: Penélope, for Julián.
* LoveMartyr: Nuria Monfort for [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] especially after his transformation into Laín Coubert. It doesn't work.
* MadeOfIron: Fermín, who, after being severely beaten by Inspector Fumero, recovers rapidly and immediately starts groping the nurse.
** Also [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] who survives having all his skin burnt off.
* MagicalRealism
* MeaningfulEcho: "The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours..." "...except your dreams." Between [[spoiler: Julián and Miquel, both as children, and moments before Miquel dies.]]
** And again between Daniel and [[spoiler: his son,]] at the end of the book, mirroring the very first chapter.
* MirrorMonster: As a child, Julián made up stories that he had a sister who lived in hell and came to visit him through the mirror.
* MoralityChain: [[spoiler: When Julián finds out Penélope died years ago, his world falls apart and he starts burning his own books.]] Until Daniel appears in his life.
* MoralityPet: Daniel to [[spoiler: Julián]] who sees himself and another chance at life in him.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Fumero ''tried'' to do this to Julián.]]
* NoNameGiven: Fermín Romero de Torres is an alias, of course. We never do find out his real name.
** A newspaper in the novel gives his name as Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete. Given the newspaper gets his informations from Fumero, it could actually be the real one as well one that Fumero invented.
* PlotParallel: There are plenty of parallels between the stories of Julián and Daniel.
* PosthumousCharacter: Guess who? [[spoiler: Subverted with Julián, who turns out to be still alive. Nuria Monfort is a straighter example. And also Miquel]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Fermín is a mild version of this, he flirts with every woman he sees, but has stayed monogamous since he met Bernarda.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: the identity of Laìn Coubert is quite shocking, especially after the author spent most of the book trying to make the reader think it was Jorge Aldaya]]
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Julián's childhood room is covered in crosses and Catholic symbols, though it's his father, not him, who did it.
* StalkerWithACrush: Francisco Javier Fumero used to be one for [[spoiler: Penélope Aldaya]].
* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Julián doesn't know that Penélope is his half-sister]].
* TragicMonster: Lain Coubert.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Again, Fumero, who always seems to be on the winning side.
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''The Shadow of the Wind'' is a 2001 best-selling mystery novel by Spanish author Carlos Ruiz Zafon.
Set in Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War, the story follows Daniel, who, as a young boy, discovers a long-forgotten book in a secret library entitled ''The Shadow of the Wind'' by Julián Carax. Daniel tries to seek out other books by the author, but can find nothing and no information on Carax himself. Then he hears stories of a strange man calling himself Lain Coubert, the name of the [[{{Satan}} devil]] in Carax's book, who is seeking out and burning all copies of the mysterious author's novels.
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!!This book contains examples of:
* AlliterativeName: Miquel Moliner.
* AnimalMotifs: Fumero is associated with insects: cold, calculating, heartless.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Tomás Aguilar devotes his time to building things like the "aerostatic dart." Daniel points this out.
* BigEater: Fermín, despite being described as underweight, has an incredible appetite.
* BookEnds
* ChekhovsGun: The Montblanc Pen Daniel gets as a birthday present on his sixteenth birthday.
* ColdBloodedTorture: Fermín is covered in scars that are revealed to be the result of this.
* CreepyChild: Inspector Fumero, naturally, who used to capture cats and pigeons and torture them for hours. Julián was a milder version.
* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Julián's lover dies in childbirth]].
* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Julián, after Penélope dies]].
* DisabledLoveInterest: Clara, Gustavo Barcelo's blind niece, was the object of Daniel's teenaged affections.
* FramingDevice: A significant part of Julián and Miquel's story is told through Nuria's letter to Daniel (which was sent [[spoiler: after she was murdered]].)
* HeroesWantRedheads: Daniel for [[spoiler: Beatriz]].
* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler: Julián Carax was Ricardo Aldaya's son (and therefore Jorge and Penélope's half-brother)]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Miquel Moliner]] sacrifices himself for Julián by pretending to be him and [[{{CrowningMomentOfAwesome}} shooting two police officers.]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Miquel and Julián seemed to be this, although it's more apparent on Miquel's side.
* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rociíto proves to be one at the end of the story.
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Tomás delivers a something along this line to Daniel, when he starts seeing [[spoiler: his sister]].
* InadequateInheritor: Don Ricardo sees Jorge as this.
* IOweYouMyLife: Fermín will do anything he can for Daniel and his father as they have taken him in from the street and gave him a job, making him a respectable citizen again.
* JekyllAndHyde: A variant with [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] who, after his DespairEventHorizon, takes on the name of Laín Coubert, [[spoiler: a character he himself created.]]
* LadykillerInLove: Fermín to Bernarda.
* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler: Julián gets Penelope pregnant the first time they have sex, same goes for Daniel and Bea]].
* TheLostLenore: Penélope, for Julián.
* LoveMartyr: Nuria Monfort for [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] especially after his transformation into Laín Coubert. It doesn't work.
* MadeOfIron: Fermín, who, after being severely beaten by Inspector Fumero, recovers rapidly and immediately starts groping the nurse.
** Also [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] who survives having all his skin burnt off.
* MagicalRealism
* MeaningfulEcho: "The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours..." "...except your dreams." Between [[spoiler: Julián and Miquel, both as children, and moments before Miquel dies.]]
** And again between Daniel and [[spoiler: his son,]] at the end of the book, mirroring the very first chapter.
* MirrorMonster: As a child, Julián made up stories that he had a sister who lived in hell and came to visit him through the mirror.
* MoralityChain: [[spoiler: When Julián finds out Penélope died years ago, his world falls apart and he starts burning his own books.]] Until Daniel appears in his life.
* MoralityPet: Daniel to [[spoiler: Julián]] who sees himself and another chance at life in him.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler: Fumero ''tried'' to do this to Julián.]]
* NoNameGiven: Fermín Romero de Torres is an alias, of course. We never do find out his real name.
** A newspaper in the novel gives his name as Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete. Given the newspaper gets his informations from Fumero, it could actually be the real one as well one that Fumero invented.
* PlotParallel: There are plenty of parallels between the stories of Julián and Daniel.
* PosthumousCharacter: Guess who? [[spoiler: Subverted with Julián, who turns out to be still alive. Nuria Monfort is a straighter example. And also Miquel]]
* ReallyGetsAround: Fermín is a mild version of this, he flirts with every woman he sees, but has stayed monogamous since he met Bernarda.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: the identity of Laìn Coubert is quite shocking, especially after the author spent most of the book trying to make the reader think it was Jorge Aldaya]]
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Julián's childhood room is covered in crosses and Catholic symbols, though it's his father, not him, who did it.
* StalkerWithACrush: Francisco Javier Fumero used to be one for [[spoiler: Penélope Aldaya]].
* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Julián doesn't know that Penélope is his half-sister]].
* TragicMonster: Lain Coubert.
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Again, Fumero, who always seems to be on the winning side.
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