I just finished The Shadow of the Wind. It was a very good book just translated into English from Spanish. It was a best seller in Spain. It is set in first half of the century in Barcelona.

Tell us a little more; I'm back from Barcelona and won't have a chance to return for a while, but it's such an interesting city that I'd like to learn more about it. Is the book fiction or nonfiction? What is the subject, briefly? Thanks.

jd, if you really want to know more about the city, check out <i>Barcelona</i> by Robert Hughes. It's a 550 page history, extremely well-written and quite fascinating.

The Shadow of the Wind is fiction, but is set in Barcelona. I've not been there, but for anyone who has, it should be very interesting. There is history played into the story. It is a mystery with many, many layers. It is a page turner.

The reviews make it seem like a bodice ripping mystery that keeps you reading until the end!
The same author wrote Angel Heart.
Thanks marty~

For what it's worth, I made it halfway through the book and gave up...and I'm a diehard reader who normally steams through books like this. I just reached a point where it was moving too slowly and I couldn't bear another 200 pages of it. It certainly wasn't &quot;bodice ripping&quot;!

I would say &quot;bodice ripping&quot; is by no means a description of the book. It may be slow to some, but I like a story that slowly evolves. Check Amazon for some reviews, if you are interested.

Good morning~
I got the &quot;bodice ripping&quot; bit from a review..I believe you can read it on Amazong.com.

&quot;It's hard to know what to make of this book -- it's a cross between a modern bodice-ripper, a nineteenth-century Italian opera, and Casablanca. Overblown, overlong, overcomplicated, overdetailed, over-dramatic, over the top in almost every respect.&quot;

But this does not mean it is not entertaining!