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I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
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Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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