Spanish writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the acclaimed "The Shadow of the Wind", died at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, United States, it was announced Friday June 19, 2020. (AP Photo/Bernat ...

"A totally captivating tale of love, hate, family, friendship, loss and redemption. This book exudes a reverence for books that went straight to my heart. The book sings. It is hard to imagine ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón was frequently called the most-read Spanish author since Cervantes. His breakout 2001 novel The Shadow of the Wind follows Daniel, a young boy in Barcelona just after World War ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the bestselling novel “The Shadow of the Wind” and one of the world’s most popular Spanish writers, has died at the age of 55. His Spanish publisher ...

THE SHADOW OF THE WIND. By Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Translated from the Spanish by Lucia Graves. Penguin, 487 pp. $24.95. But such shortcuts also remind us that novels, like most literature ...

By Raphael Minder MADRID — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, whose mystery novel “The Shadow of the Wind” became one of the best-selling Spanish books of all time, died on Friday at his home in Santa ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, author of the best-selling novel “The Shadow of the Wind” and one of the world ... writer Carlos Ruiz Zafon poses in the Sant Felip Neri Square in the center of Barcelona ...