Why I May Never Finish Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s Final Novel

It seems crazy, but I have reasons

Paul Combs
Fanfare
Published in
4 min readMay 9, 2024

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My love for the works of the late Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon has been well documented here. In addition to reviews of three of the four novels in his Cemetery of Forgotten Books series, I’ve also written about the impact his books, especially The Shadow of the Wind, have had on my life. In fact, the only…

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