While browsing the Stanford bookstore in 2017, I found myself in conversation with a sales aid, who happened to be a rather animated 80-year-old publishing assistant. With strange and excessive parallels to main character Daniel Sempere, I discovered the first novel of Zafón’s series through poetic chance and literary luck. Set in Barcelona during the twentieth-century, Zafón’s web of multigenerational characters navigate the sprawling streets and secret histories of the city, ensconced by its magic, as readers walk away with their own map of the land. Carlos Ruiz Zafón’s four-novel set is a masterpiece in intricacy and Gothic literature. Despite the “Cemetery of Forgotten Books” series selling more than 35 million copies worldwide and being published in more than 40 countries, I think this series is criminally underrated in the United States.
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