La sombra del viento

The Shadow of the Wind (Spanish: La Sombra del Viento) is a worldwide best-selling novel by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, published in 2001. Lucia Graves translated the book into English in 2004 and it sold over a million copies in the UK after it had already achieved success in mainland Europe, topping the Spanish bestseller lists for weeks. Penguin Books published it in the United States, and Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Orion Books published it in the United Kingdom.

This international best-seller by Carlos Luis Zafón is a romantic thriller set in Barcelona. It follows a young writer who is approached by a mysterious unknown figure and asked to write a book that begins with the industrial revolution and ends with the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. La Sombra del Viento has sold 15 million copies worldwide in a variety of languages, making it one of the most popular published books in the world. This one has a lot of magical realism in it, but it doesn't technically fit into the genre.

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1232