The Shadow of the Wind is a novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón published in 2001, the first book in the saga of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and a  worldwide bestseller, with elements of magical realism and intrigue, and more than twenty-five million copies sold in 36 different languages and in more than 30 countries.

The critics called her "one of the great literary revelations of recent times". The Shadow of the Wind is the first installment of a cycle of four novels of rich and evocative prose, interconnected and set in a  mysterious and gothic Barcelona that goes from the era of the industrial revolution to the years after the Spanish Civil War. The four stories, independent and self-sufficient in themselves, share some characters and settings. Its sequels are The Angel's Game (2008), The Prisoner of Heaven (2011) and The Labyrinth of the Spirits (2016).