The Shadow of the Wind

An enthralling tale from start-to-finish. There were quite a few plot-points that I didn't see coming. Although sometimes the narrator, Daniel, had the voice of a thirty-year-old man than a child, even when he was a child, but since the story was told in retrospect, that came to make a lot more sense. One of the few books I've read that has an almost mosaic, spellbinding prose and just enough details to entice without feeling bare-boned. This was the first full-length Spanish-language novel that I read when I was about sixteen, and I thoroughly was enamoured with it. That feeling hasn't changed one bit in reading the English. This is one I would recommend both in Spanish and English to a lot of my fellow readers.