· The Painter of Battles. The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte is an engaging and thought provoking novel. Andres Falques, the main character is a retired war photographer who is now living his remaining years peacefully by the sea and painting scenes from his past www.doorway.ru: Random House Publishing Group. Free download or read online The Painter of Battles pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in , and was written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in ebook format. The main characters of this fiction, war story are Faulques, Ivo Malkovic. Arturo Perez-Reverte’s The Painter of Battles is a compelling story of self-reflection, loss and suspense overlaid with a well-researched discussion of the history of images. If I were not already an art historian, this book may have inspired me to become one with its offering of romanticism and sentimentality that such a thought would once have entailed for me in my youth/5.
The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden pp, Weidenfeld Nicolson, £ A man lives alone, in a crumbling tower by the sea. Superb and tautly written, The Painter of Battles is a deeply affecting audiobook about life and art. © Margaret Sayers Peden; Arturo Perez-Reverte (P) Random House, Inc. Literary Fiction Psychological War Military Suspense. Arturo Pérez-Reverte's bestselling books, including The Club Dumas, The Flanders Panel, The Fencing Master, and the Captain Alatriste series, have been translated into thirty-four languages in fifty countries and have sold millions of www.doorway.ru in Cartagena, Spain, Pérez-Reverte now lives in Madrid, where he was recently elected to the Spanish Royal Academy.
The Painter of Battles was the winner of the Premio Gregor von Rezzori award for foreign fiction translated into Italian. In Pérez-Reverte was named as one of the 10 most important writers of the year by the Spanish national newspaper ABC, alongside novelists including Eduardo Mendoza and Andrés Pascual. "Perez-Reverte is a best-selling author in his native Spain: previously a war correspondent, his experiences show through in the gritty realism of the war scenes he portrays. With translated works it's not possible to gauge the quality of the author's prose, but Peden's translation reveals memorable passages.". Yet Arturo Pérez-Reverte a Spaniard who writes intellectual thrillers and historical novels about such subjects as fencing and musketeers proposes to scale these heights.
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