Line #43 Literature/TheShadowOfTheWind


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3	''The Shadow of the Wind'' is a 2001 best-selling mystery novel by Spanish author Creator/CarlosRuizZafon.
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5	Set in Barcelona after the Spanish Civil War, the story follows Daniel Sempere, the scion of a dynasty of book sellers, who, as a young boy, discovers a long-forgotten novel entitled ''The Shadow of the Wind'' by Julián Carax in a secret library called The Cemetery of Forgotten Books. As a teenager, Daniel tries to seek out other books by the author, but can find nothing and no information on Carax himself. He then learns that most of Carax's books have been obtained and destroyed by a disfigured man calling himself Lain Coubert, the name of the [[{{Satan}} devil]] in Carax's book. Daniel's investigation into Coubert's identity inadvertently puts him on the radar of Inspector Fumero, a psychopathic member of dictator Francisco Franco's secret police, who has his own vested interest in tracking down both Coubert and the last of Carax's books. In his quest, Daniel will be aided by his best friend's intense younger sister; a hedonistic bookseller; the bookseller's vivacious, blind niece; and a homeless former spy who becomes his best friend.
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7	The novel retroactively became the first installment of the loose tetralogy known as ''The Cemetery of Forgotten Books'', being followed by ''Literature/TheAngelsGame'' in 2008.
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10	!!This book contains examples of:
11	* AlliterativeName: Miquel Moliner.
12	* AmbiguousSituation:
13	** Fermín Romero de Torres reveals this name is an alias, but we never ''definitively'' find out his real name. A newspaper claims his name is Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete, and given the spaper gets its information from Fumero, it could actually be the real name - in fact, the article bills Alcayete from the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, the place Fermín himself mentions later as his native land. However, Fermin never confirms it's his real name and instead simply asks the Semperes to continue regarding him as Fermin.
14	** It's also implied that at least some of Fermín's most outrageous claims are true, as Fumero reveals Fermín really lived in Cuba and was in contact with the era's upper class just as he claims. Again, however, not much is clarified. That he is a former spy, at the very least, turns out to be very true.
15	* AnimalMotifs: Fumero is associated with spiders and insects: cold, calculating, predatory, and heartless.
16	* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[spoiler: Julian Carax]] is described as having no eyelids. In real life, this would render him blind, since eyelids facilitate the eyes retaining moisture and protecting them from constant light exposure. People who suffer third-degree burns to the extent described in the book require skin grafts to prevent blindness.
17	* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Mr. Aldaya]] is a misogynistic, entitled, verbally and physically abusive tycoon who [[spoiler: causes his own teenage daughter's death by locking her alone in her room and forcing her to give birth by herself]]. No one is sorry when he [[spoiler: has a nervous breakdown and jumps into shark infested waters]]. His own son's quest to "avenge" him isn't even done out of love but rather a sense of family duty.
18	* AuthorAppeal: Being a novelist himself, Zafón makes all of his positive characters highly literate and conversant in fine literature, while the villainous characters are all depicted as either proudly illiterate or outright contemptuous of books. The most extreme example is Fumero, whose introduction finds him telling Daniel that reading is a waste of time; we later learn that he owns all of Julián Carax's books, but has never actually read any of them, and [[spoiler: only keeps them on a shelf in his home to remind him of his contempt for the writer.]]
19	* AwesomeButImpractical: Tomás Aguilar devotes his time to building things like the "aerostatic dart." Daniel points this out.
20	* BabiesEverAfter: [[spoiler: In the epilogue, Daniel reveals he and Bea went on to have a healthy baby boy, while Fermín and Bernarda ended up with ''four'' kids.]]
21	* TheBadGuysAreCops: Being set in a totalitarian dictatorship, it's no surprise that the cops of ''The Shadow of the Wind'' are corrupt. Even among the secret police, though, Fumero has a reputation for taking a little ''too'' much enjoyment in his job. Multiple characters point out that he's essentially a serial killer who found a way to monetize his mental illness and fly under the radar.
22	* BeenThereShapedHistory: Fructuós Gelabert was a real-life pioneering filmmaker from Barcelona that made what is considered the first Spanish movie with a plot. According to the book, eccentric millionaire Jausà funded him in exchange for filming his mansion [[ItMakesSenseInContext so he can catch the spirit of his cuban lover]] After Jausà disappears, he gets a huge check from Mr. Aldaya to never mention the matter again.
23	* BigEater: Fermín, despite being described as underweight, has an incredible appetite. Combined with his always being cold, inability to sit still, and rambling monologues, he seems to suffer from hyperthyroidism, which wasn't well understood during the time the story takes place.
24	* BleakAbyssRetirementHome: Santa Lucia's Asylum, where all the old homeless (and sometimes mad) people of Barcelona end up.
25	* BookEnds: A Zafón trademark, along with the FirstPersonSmartass narration. The story both begins and ends with [[spoiler: a Sempere man taking their child to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. In the beginning it's Juan Sempere taking Daniel, and in the end, Daniel takes his own son, Julian]].
26	* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: [[spoiler: Julián and Nuria's friendship has shades of this, particularly their time together in France]].
27	* BrotherSisterIncest: [[spoiler:Julián and Penélope fall in love, but they turn out to be half-siblings from their father's side]].
28	* BunnyEarsLawyer: Fermín is a traumatized war veteran prone to breaking down into screaming fits who also spends much of his time openly lusting over every woman he sees and who'll periodically stop what he's doing to go into aimless, rambling monologues about actresses he finds attractive or random stuff he's thinking. He's also a trained spy with years of espionage under his belt who gets down to business when things get serious.
29	* CameBackStrong: After surviving the fire, [[spoiler: Julian Carax]] inexplicably has super-strength, to the point he can life a grown man in the air.
30	* ChekhovsGun:
31	** The Montblanc Pen Daniel gets as a present on his sixteenth birthday.
32	** The [[ProductPlacement Sugus candy]] that Fermín gives Daniel to calm him down.
33	** A unique example comes in the form of the overturned angel statue at the Aldaya Mansion. Every time Daniel visits, he notes the statue's hand jutting up out of the fountain. Finally, at the end of the book, [[spoiler: Julian Carax saves Daniel's life by impaling Fumero on it]].
34	* ChekhovsGunman:
35	** Fermín makes an early blink-and-you-miss-him appearance as a random homeless man asking Daniel to let him into an apartment foyer to get out of the rain. When he pops back up much later to aid Daniel after [[spoiler: he's beaten up by Clara's boyfriend]], it's easy to forget he's the same character.
36	** In one chapter Daniel recounts how he met his friend Tomás when Daniel insulted his sister Beatriz and Tomás punched him. [[spoiler:She ends having a larger role on the story than her brother, ending as Daniel's romantic interest and eventual wife.]]
37	** While Daniel and Fermín where investigating, they stopped in a restaurant where a man was impressed by how much Fermín could eat, and was then 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.]]
38	** Fumero, in a unique retroactive case. Although he introduces himself as ''Francisco Javier Fumero'', from that point forward, he's only ever called "Fumero," while in the flashbacks to Carax's school days- which come significantly later in the book- [[spoiler: he's only called "Javier"]] up to TheReveal. More mindful readers may make the link, although the book goes out of its way to make the reader believe they're separate characters.
39	* ColdBloodedTorture: Fermín is covered in scars that are revealed to be the result of this.
40	* ContinuityDrift:
41	** Fumero's second surname is initially shown to be Almuñiz, but it is later given as Sotoceballos. There's seemingly no reason for him to change in-universe his second surname yet not his first (after all, his father was almost as much of an asshole as his mother), and it is never mentioned.
42	** The letter that Daniel finds early in the novel, the one that Penélope wrote sincerely to Julián, describes events in a way that becomes incompatible with the later recollection of them. For instance, Penélope claims she repeatedly asked Miquel for Julián's whereabouts after the latter escaped, despite being later explicitly shown that she died uncommunicated after his fugue and could not talk to or meet Miquel before her death.
43	* CreepyChild: A few.
44	** Inspector Fumero, a borderline mute boy who who used to spend hours alone carving creepy wooden figures and [[spoiler: capturing cats and pigeons and torturing them for hours.]]
45	** Julián is a more mild example in that made up disturbing stories as a child and was generally withdrawn and isolative, but his behavior generally only upset his parents. Everyone else just sees him as kind of a weird kid.
46	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Several characters.
47	** Fermín [[spoiler: was a Republican spy who was arrested trying to smuggle his superiors in the Generalitat out of the country, after which he was tortured by Fumero, forced to give up the other spies in his network, and abandoned in the city. After being rescued and healed by a widow, he tried to return to Cuba, but was arrested again and spent years entering and exiting the Modelo jail as a homeless man until encountering Daniel.]]
48	** Fumero [[spoiler: was sexually abused by his schizophrenic, social-climber mother and neglected by his passive, retiring father, resulting in his mentally unbalanced state. After he shot his mother in revenge for her abuse, his father covered up for it by claiming it was a hunting accident, setting him down the road for a career of judicially-sanctioned murder]].
49	** Julián Carax [[spoiler: was conceived when his mother had an affair with Mr. Aldaya because Carax Sr. refused to have sex with her. Carax Sr. then spent the next several years violently abusing both Julián and his mother, leading to Julian's generally mordant worldview. Julián briefly got a reprieve when Mr. Aldaya decided to make Julián his heir, only for Julián to unknowingly have an affair with his own biological sister]].
50	* DarkIsEvil: Sadistic, [[spoiler: matricidal]] Fumero stands out in a crowd due to the fact he only ever wears black suits and a black fedora.
51	* DeathByChildbirth: [[spoiler: Penélope Aldaya is forced to give birth alone by her father as punishment for her affair with Julian and bleeds to death as a result. Because of the circumstances, their son doesn't make it, either.]].
52	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Being set between the 1930s and the 1950s, quite a bit.
53	** The casual mistreatment of women, which was common during the fifties in Spain, when Franco's regime encouraged a culture of macho dominance. Even heroic characters like Fermin casually grope women and make sexist remarks that no one comments on because it was simply expected behavior for the era. One older (and even more dissonant) woman talking about Julian's father casually mentions that sometimes men need to beat their wives to keep them in line.
54	** Similarly, because the era had laxer standards regarding alcohol consumption, characters drink massive amounts of booze to the point many of them (most notably Fermin) are functioning alcoholics.
55	** Almost every adult character smokes non-stop throughout the story.
56	* DespairEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Julián, after finding out that Penélope died in childbirth along with their son. When Daniel finally finds him, he's essentially living with their graves in the Aldaya family crypt]].
57	* 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 after the story, we are told he is still working on it.
58	* DirtyCop: Essentially every police officer in the book save Palacious is corrupt and willing to resort to beating and torture to get results. Even in the cut-throat world of Franco's secret police, though, Inspector Fumero is considered a maniac by his colleagues.
59	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Mr. Aldaya decided to jump from his ship and being eaten by sharks on his way to Argentina.]]
60	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
61	** Daniel's second surname is Martín, which would be later retconned as Gispert in the next book. Made providential by the final book in the series when [[spoiler: it turns out that schizophrenic novelist David Martín is his biological father]].
62	** Daniel's more heroic moments may come off as strange to readers who've read the books featuring him as an adult, where he's depicted as neurotic, inept, and something of a ButtMonkey.
63	* EarnYourHappyEnding:
64	** [[spoiler: Daniel ends up with a caring wife and a lovely child ten years after the story. And he only needed to be beaten up twice, stalked, threatened by the secret police and put on a government watch list, and shot in the chest to get it.]]
65	** Even [[spoiler:Julián gets his will to live restored by Daniel, and gets to start writing again]].
66	* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: When Daniel and Fermín goes to San Gabriel to look into Julián's past, the first priest they encounter there happens to be a former friend of him. [[spoiler: And they were also friends with Fumero.]]
67	* FakeNationality: InUniverse. At one point before the story, Fermín presents himself as being Cuban. [[spoiler:It's later implied that Fermín, although born in Cáceres, Spain, did really live in Cuba for a time.]]
68	* ForeignCultureFetish: Barceló is an great admirer of the 19th century, to the point of dressing in the old-fashioned style and using a monocle and pipe, both for show.
69	* 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]].)
70	* FreudianExcuse: Literally: according to Miquel, Fumero told him that his mother abused him sexually, which in his opinion may explain everything which came after.
71	* FullNameBasis: Fermín Romero de Torres. When Daniel mentions him, nine out of ten would be by his full name.
72	* GeniusBruiser, GentleGiant: Both apply to Tomás Aguilar.
73	* GiveMeASword: In the final fight Fumero lost his gun during a fight with [[spoiler:Julián]] and couldn't find it when he got the upper hand. So he orders his subordinate Palacios to hand him his gun. [[spoiler: But he refuses.]]
74	* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler:Both Daniel and Fermín end like this with their respective love interests]]
75	* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Palacios refuses to give his gun to Fumero for killing Daniel.]]
76	* HeroicBastard: [[spoiler: Julián Carax was Ricardo Aldaya's son (and therefore Jorge and Penélope's half-brother)]].
77	* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Miquel Moliner]] sacrifices himself for Julián by pretending to be him and shooting two police officers.
78	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Miquel and Julián seemed to be this, although it's more apparent on Miquel's side.
79	* HighClassGlass: Barceló, as part of his admiration for the 19th century.
80	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[UsefulNotes/FranciscoFranco Franco's]] shadow can be felt [[GreaterScopeVillain all over the book]].
81	* HookerWithAHeartOfGold: Rociíto proves to be one at the end of the story.
82	* HospitalEpilogue: The last chapter of the book. [[spoiler:Everyone is at the hospital visiting Daniel after he needed to be revived.]]
83	* IHaveManyNames: Fermín. We know that that's not his name. And Fumero at one point calls him his "friend of the thousand names."
84	* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Daniel gets one from [[spoiler: Tomás when he starts seeing his sister.]]
85	* InadequateInheritor: A common theme on the book.
86	** Don Ricardo thought his son Jorge didn't had the character to succeed him, which drove him to [[spoiler:search for his illegitimate son, Julián]].
87	** Mr. Aguilar actually instructed Tomás' tutors to act as if he were stupid.
88	** This is just one of the many layers of friction between Don Antoni and his son Julián.
89	** When the Aldayas' fortune began to go down, some people believed that Don Ricardo was just an idiot that wasted what his father founded.
90	** 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.
91	* 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.
92	* 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.
93	* JekyllAndHyde: A variant with [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] who, after his DespairEventHorizon, takes on the name of Laín Coubert, [[spoiler: a character he himself created.]]
94	* LadykillerInLove: Fermín to Bernarda.
95	* LawOfInverseFertility: [[spoiler: Julián gets Penelope pregnant the first time they have sex, same goes for Daniel and Bea]].
96	* TheLostLenore: Penélope, for Julián.
97	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Fumero first attempt to murder someone was inspired by unrequited love.
98	* LoveMartyr: Nuria Monfort for [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] especially after his transformation into Laín Coubert. It doesn't work.
99	* MadeOfIron:
100	** Fermín, who, after being severely beaten by Inspector Fumero, recovers rapidly and immediately starts groping the nurse.
101	** Also [[spoiler: Julián Carax,]] who survives having all his skin burnt off.
102	* MagicalRealism: Aldaya's house is haunted but nothing comes out of it.
103	* {{Malaproper}}:
104	** La Bernarda. She believes that Barceló's UsefulNotes/{{Agnosticism}} is some kind of illness in his throat.
105	** When Fermín explains to Rociíto that he hasn't "visited" her as frequently is because of monogamy. She responds that maybe some penicillin might help with that.
106	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the story's background, Jausà dies in an unspecificed accident while inspecting one of the films un which he was trying to capture the soul of his dead lover. His partner Ricardo Aldaya checks it up personally and then burns it, telling the technician to just forget about it. Aldaya was aware that Jausà's experiments were all nonsense, but this reaction seems to imply... ''something''.
107	* MeaningfulEcho:
108	** "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.]]
109	** And again between Daniel and [[spoiler:his son,]] at the end of the book, mirroring the very first chapter.
110	* MeaningfulName: Francisco Javier Fumero shares his first name with dictator Francisco Franco.
111	* MindScrew: Thanks to multiple [[TheReveal reveals]] [[JigsawPuzzlePlot that leave out some important particular.]] [[AuthorAppeal Zafón does it with]] ''[[AuthorAppeal every single novel]]'' [[AuthorAppeal he writes.]]
112	* 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.
113	* 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.
114	* MoralityPet: Daniel to [[spoiler: Julián]] who sees himself and another chance at life in him.
115	* MurderTheHypotenuse: When Julián and Penélope started dating, [[spoiler: Fumero]] ''tried'' to get rid of the competition.
116	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Daniel ends up on the receiving end of two. Fermín also gets one from Fumero.
117	* NoNameGiven: Daniel's father is only ever referred to as "Sempere," their surname. It wouldn't be until the final book in the series that Zafon finally revealed his name is [[spoiler: Juan]].
118	* NonActionGuy: Fermín is a former spy, and while he may have served in the army, he's definitely ''not'' a 007 style hand-to-hand sort of guy.
119	* NoNameGiven: Fermín Romero de Torres is an alias, of course. We never do find out his real name. A newspaper in the novel implies his birth name is Antonio José Gutiérrez Alcayete, but it is never confirmed.
120	* NouveauRiche: Many of the families that tie into Julian's story only rose to prominence within the last few generations during Barcelona's industrial revolution.
121	* OlderThanTheyLook: If the info about Fermín given in the newspapers is true, (which he himself seems to acknowledge), he's 51 during the events of the book. As ''Literature/TheAngelsGame'' establishes Daniel was born when his father was in his early thirties, this means Fermín is around the same age as Mr. Sempere, who is described as and behaves like a significantly older man (most likely as the result of his wife's premature death and having to raise Daniel as a single father).
122	* PlotParallel: There are plenty of parallels between the stories of Julián and Daniel.
123	* PoliceBrutality: Fumero's whole MO. He "interrogated" Fermin so severely that his entire back is still covered in burn scars, and, when Daniel starts getting too close to the truth, he has Fermin beaten up as a deterrent.
124	* PosthumousCharacter: Guess who? [[spoiler: Subverted with Julián, who turns out to be still alive. Nuria Monfort is a straighter example. And also Miquel.]]
125	* PrimalScene: [[spoiler: Daniel, wanting to make sure that Clara is safe, ends interrupting one of her "classes" with master Neri. This earns Daniel his first beatdown of the book.]]
126	* PsychoForHire: Inspector Fumero, who enjoys killing people for his own amusement. Because 1950s Spain had an accepted culture of police brutality, he's able to fly under the radar by getting a job as a cop, and climbs the ranks due to the ends-justify-the-means mentality of Franco's secret police. He first begins committing murder recreationally in his youth before realizing he can monetize his own psychosis, and spends the Civil War switching alliances based on who'll pay him the most to kill people, finally ensuring he's on the winning side of the conflict.
127	* PutOnABus: After being a major character for the first half of the book, [[spoiler: Clara Barcelo]] abruptly disappears from the narrative, only being mentioned in passing in Daniel's final summation of every character's fate at the end of the book.
128	* ReallyGetsAround: Fermín flirts with every woman he encounters and even tries hooking up with the ER nurses when he's beaten and taken to the hospital. If his account of his past is to be believed, he was quite the ladies' man in his prime, but begrudgingly accepts monogamy after meeting Bernarda.
129	* TheReveal: There are a few wham moments:
130	** [[spoiler: the identity of Laìn Coubert is quite shocking, as Zafon goes out of his way to make it seem that Julian Carax is dead and that the culprit is either Jorge Aldaya or Miquel Molinar.]]
131	** [[spoiler: The revelation that Carax's creepy, animal murdering classmate Javier grew up to be Inspector Fumero]].
132	* RomanticFalseLead: Clara is introduced as Daniel's love interest, but after the PrimalScene with her music teacher she pretty much disappears from the story, only making a couple of brief appearances.
133	* RoomFullOfCrazy: Julián's childhood room is covered in crosses and Catholic symbols, though it's his father, not him, who did it.
134	* RunningGag: Any drink that Fermín prepares tastes like diesel.
135	* ShipperOnDeck: Both Fermín and Mr. Sempere are really glad of Daniel's "date" with [[spoiler: Bea.]]
136	* ShoutOut: Barceló references Theatre/{{Pygmalion}} when he hired Bernarda. Even stating that she would be his Eliza, and he would be her Prof. Higgings.
137	* SnowMeansDeath: During the last part of the story a strange snowstorm hits Barcelona out of nowhere. [[spoiler: And is during this storm that both Daniel and Fumero die. (But Daniel gets better).]]
138	* StalkerWithACrush: Francisco Javier Fumero used to be one for [[spoiler: Penélope Aldaya]].
139	* StarCrossedLovers:
140	** Julián and Penélope fall in love with each other, but they only get one night together before he is forced to flee Barcelona because of the wrath of her father. In the end she dies at childbirth.
141	** Daniel and Bea, since she is set to marry a soldier as soon as he returns from service, despite their growing feelings for each other, and the disapproval of her father for Daniel. [[spoiler:SubvertedTrope as at the end Daniel and Bea do get married]].
142	* StraightEdgeEvil: Sadistic torturer and murderer Inspector Fumero doesn't indulge in any vices other than smoking, which wouldn't even be considered such by the standards of 1950s Europe. He makes a point of living an ascetic, ordered life to better prepare himself for committing heinous atrocities.
143	* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Daniel says that finding ''The Shadow of the Wind'' in the cemetery 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.
144	* SurpriseIncest: [[spoiler: Julián doesn't know that Penélope is his half-sister]].
145	* ThatManIsDead:
146	** 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.
147	** Lain Coubert character has shades of this as well. Not only he doesn't want to remember anything about his previous life, [[spoiler:he wants to erase it as well by burning his books.]]
148	* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fermin's Sugus candies, which pop up so much they're almost a character.
149	* TragicMonster: Laín Coubert.
150	* UndyingLoyalty: Once Daniel and his father rescue him from the streets, Fermin swears this to the Sempere family. In the epilogue, [[spoiler: Daniel confirms he kept his word]].
151	* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Again, Fumero, who always seems to be on the winning side. [[spoiler:He falls from grace as he dies and his plaque is now hidden behind the soda machine at the police station]].
152	* WhamLine:
153	** "In seven days [[spoiler:I will be dead.]]"
154	** [[spoiler: "Julián and Penélope are siblings."]]
155	* WeUsedToBeFriends:
156	** 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.
157	** Mirroring the above example, Daniél and Tomás are best friends until the former gets involved with the latter's 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.

Context Literature / TheShadowOfTheWind