The World of Books

Carlos Ruiz Zafon manages in this novel to bring books to life by explaining their souls. The importance of a book to its author and the affect it has on its readers is very well portrayed. Whether or not the book is a best seller , it still carries the soul of its author and of each of its readers.

This is the story of a book. The book in the story carries the same name as the novel itself. This book takes on a certain character and is an important protagonist of Zafón's novel.

Books, in general, play a very essential part in the lives of this novel's main characters. Zafón shows how the love of books and literature can connect people. All who read a book are somehow connected to its magic and automatically are connected to its author.

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