Characters in The Shadow of the Wind

Daniel Sempere

A Barcelona bookseller's son who chooses a novel by Julian Carax at the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and spends his adolescence uncovering the author's fate.

Also in The Prisoner of Heaven, El laberinto de los espíritus

Inspector Fumero

Francisco Javier Fumero, a sadistic police inspector whose hatred of Carax dates to their schooldays and who tortured Fermin during the Civil War.

Julián Carax

The near-forgotten novelist whose books someone is systematically burning, and whose life begins to echo Daniel's own.

Fermín Romero de Torres

A ragged, garrulous former vagrant and wartime prisoner who becomes Daniel's friend and partner in the investigation.

Also in The Prisoner of Heaven

Beatriz Aguilar

Bea, the sister of Daniel's friend Tomas, who joins his search and becomes his love interest.

Also in The Prisoner of Heaven, El laberinto de los espíritus

Clara Barceló

The blind niece of book dealer Gustavo Barcelo, and the object of the teenage Daniel's first infatuation.

Isaac Monfort

The elderly keeper of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and Nuria's father.

Francisco Javier Fumero

Also in The Prisoner of Heaven

Jorge Aldaya

Antoni Fortuny

Jacinta Coronado

Gustavo Barceló

Also in The Prisoner of Heaven

Fernando Ramos

Sophie Carax

Bernarda

Also in The Prisoner of Heaven

Tomas Aguilar

Ricardo Aldaya