CHARACTERS of The Shadow of the Wind: main and secondary characters

The wind's shadow is the author's first adult novel Carlos Ruiz Zafon and the first of the books in the saga of cemetery of forgotten books, with a total of 4 volumes. The book was a worldwide "best-seller" published in more than 40 countries and translated into 36 languages, becoming one of the most widely read books worldwide with more than 10 million copies sold.

The play narrates the adventures of daniel, a boy who discovers a book in the cemetery of forgotten books, which will change his life forever. From that day on, the boy's objective will be to find out what happened to the allegedly murdered author. It is a novel loaded with romances, betrayals, intrigues, etc. In this lesson from a TEACHER we are going to talk to you about characters of The wind's shadow, both major and minor.

On The wind's shadow there are main and minor characters. The play is made up of many characters that appear as the plot progresses, but there are some main characters who are the ones who pull the strings, the ones who make the novel Advance.

Daniel Sempere

Is he protagonist of the novel, the character on which all the plots revolve. He is the first person narrator, therefore the reader accompanies him during all his adventures. Daniel's father is the owner of the bookstore that is under his house and one day he takes him to the cemetery of forgotten books where he will discover the book that will change his life forever: the wind's shadow.

After reading that book, Daniel is haunted by the author of which little is known and decides to investigate the existence of him; that's when their adventures begin. At the end of the book, Daniel marries Bea, They have a son and he takes care of his father's bookstore.

Thomas Aguilar

He is a boy with a very large complexion who is scary just to see. One day when Daniel got involved with his sister Bea, he beat her up and from there began his great friendship. Is he Daniel's only and best friend and also a strong protector of her sister Bea hers.

Beatriz Aguilar

Bea is another of the most important characters in La sombra del viento. She is a year older than her brother Tomás de her and is the spoiled and pampered child of the family. She is red-haired and pale with a rather weak air, of which she proves otherwise towards the middle of the book. Is he daniel's first love, her first kiss and the woman she will marry and give birth to her son Julián.

Clara Barcelo

Clara is a girl ten years older than Daniel who lives with her uncle Gustavo, she is very beautiful and blind from birth. Clara becomes obsessed with Daniel in discovering who Julián Carax is and, the young man, suffering a passing love for her, gives him the only copy of the shadow of the wind, which he will later recover.

Fermín Romero de Torres

Fermín is a strange man who arrives in Barcelona without money and, Daniel's father, gives him a job in the bookstore. He is a very good bookseller, but a really weird person with a pretty dark past. He served with the army in several wars, was a civil guard and has a body full of signs of torture. Towards the middle of the book he helps Daniel a lot in his investigation of the mysterious author.

Julian Carax

We finished the list of the main characters in La sombra del viento with Julián Carax. Although he appears little in the work, only at the end, he is the pillar that supports the entire plot of the novel. Is he author of the shadow of the wind among other books dedicated to Penelope, her great love. She is always a character who hides in the shadows, since her face is disfigured due to a fire and wants to burn all of her books, until Daniel convinces her otherwise.

Being a fairly extensive book, The wind's shadow it has quite a few characters that make the story intertwine. Next we are going to present you the secondary characters They are not the ones that guide the plot of the novel, but they do provide essential information for the reader to understand the story correctly.

• Mr. Sempere: Daniel's father
• Ms. Sempere: Mother of Daniel
• Isaac: Guardian of the Graveyard of Forgotten Books
• Gustavo Barceló: Friend of Daniel's father and uncle of Clara Barceló
• Claudette: Clara's cousin
• Monsieur Roquefort: Clare's tutor during the years of exile in France
• Francisco Javier Fumero Almuñiz: Inspector
• Don Federico Flaviá: Transvestite watchmaker of the neighborhood
• Father Vicente: Jesuit teacher of Daniel
• Mary Janes: Daughter of the neighbor on the third floor
• Bernarda: Maid of Gustavo Barceló. He took good care of Daniel
• Adrián Neri: Clara's music teacher with whom he has a romance.
• Toni Cabestany: Editor of Julián Carax
• Jorge Aldaya: Penelope's brother
• Núria Monfort: Cabestany's secretary and Carax's supposed lover
• Doña Encarna: Owner of the pension where Fermín is staying
• Pablo Cascos Buendía: Boyfriend of Beatriz Aguilar
• Professor Javier Velázquez: Regular customer of the bookstore
• Aurora: Doorkeeper of the Fortuny building
• Antoni Fortuny: Father of Julián Carax
• Sophie Carax: Julian Carax's mother
• Vicenteta: Sophie's only friend
• Miquel Moliner: Núria's husband and Carax's friend
• Penelope Aldaya: The Love of Julián Carax
• Mr. Remigio: Goalkeeper of the Miravell family
• Joanet Miravell: Eldest son of the Miravell family
• Don Anacleto Olmo: Professor who wrote erotic books
• Kiko Calabuig: Reporter
• Don Ricardo Aldaya: Father of Penelope and hers illegitimate son of her Julián Carax
• Simón Aldaya: Penelope's grandfather
• Jacobo: husband of Clara Barceló
• Julián Sempere Aguilar: Son of Daniel and Bea

These are all the characters of The wind's shadow, the first volume of a four-book saga written by Carlos Ruíz Zafón. If you are interested in studying more about this novel and many others, enter our reading section and take a look at all the news.

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