The Shadow of the Wind

When the young son of a book seller begins to lose grip on the memories of his dead mother, his father, desperate to offer a consolation he cannot feel himself, brings him into a great secret: the Cemetery of Forgotten Books, a final repository for the last remainders of literature high and low, that orphaned copies will only be lost on its shelves and not forever. The boy is permitted to select one book to cherish and protect, and discovers The Shadow of the Wind.