Title: The Shadow of the Wind
Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2005
500 pages
Grand themes of destiny, conflation/collapse, and perfect coincidences are engagingly drawn in broad strokes, similar to but grander than Q & A (Slumdog Millionaire). Occasional slips into magical realism weren't necessary and bugged me. Some parts fit together better than others; at best, it was like seeing something sucked into a whirlpool, disintegrated, and miraculously emerging in a different form. The burned man's identity was obvious early on. Oddly, I was simultaneously reading The English Patient, with its own burned man whose identity was important and concealed.
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