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Quite a story. At first the mysterious disappearing books seem like just a mechanism to tell the story of a boy coming of age and falling in love. But it develops into an expansive, tangled and absorbing mystery. The fact that it's about a different place (Barcelona) and time (post World War II) adds to the fascination.