madcaow » books http://www.madcaow.com/blog lost in a web Tue, 14 Jun 2011 08:47:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The Shadow of the Wind http://www.madcaow.com/blog/books/the-shadow-of-the-wind/ http://www.madcaow.com/blog/books/the-shadow-of-the-wind/#comments Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:26:38 +0000 hugh http://www.madcaow.com/2007/03/16/the-shadow-of-the-wind/ Nuria Monfort lived adrift in shadows. A narrow hallway led to a dining room that also served as kitchen, library and office. On the way, I noticed a modest bedroom, with no windows. That was all, other than a tiny bathroom, with no shower or tub, out of which all kinds of odours emanated, from smells of cooking from the bar below to a musty stench of pipes and drains that dated from the turn of the century. The entire apartment was sunk in perpetual gloom, like a block of darkness propped up between peeling walls. It smelled of black tobacco, cold, and absence.

The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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