''The Shadow of the Wind'' opens in 1945 in Barcelona, bleak and still shattered by the Spanish Civil War. The three illustrious meeters must surely have been drinking and they weave about a little, but steady remarkably as the pages go by. It's lowdown and lazy, but here goes: ''Gabriel García Márquez meets Umberto Eco meets Jorge Luis Borges'' for a sprawling magic show, exasperatingly tricky and mostly wonderful, by the Spanish novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafón. Wodehouse meets Sophocles,'' for a tragicomedy set during an English country weekend. When book publicists try to dress up their product in designer clothes, they reach for the verb ''meets.'' Made-up instances: ''John le Carré meets Dostoyevsky,'' for a thriller with metaphysical ambitions.
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