Ebook {Epub PDF} The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

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. 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.  · Arturo Perez-Reverte, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. Enter the brooding world of the painter of battles, a former. photographer of horrors who has now retreated to an old lighthouse. to paint away his demons. Andrés Faulques made his fame by. capturing wars in photographs.

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. The Painter of Battles by Arturo Pérez-Reverte General information 'The Painter of Battles' (original title: 'El Pintor de Batallas'), written by a well-known Spanish writer Arturo Pérez-Reverte, was published in It was considered to be one of the biggest literary events in Spain, since the author is highly respectable and. Pérez-Reverte ends the novel imaginatively, but not soon enough to rescue it from portentousness and redundancy. The author has done and can do better than this. Pub Date: Jan. 15th, ISBN: Page count: pp.

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. 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. Pérez-Reverte's novel is a mystery, a memoir, a thriller, and a philosophical treatise on the nature of love, art, and war. Andres Falques, a retired war photographer, spends his days painting a massive mural incorporating scenes from horrendous battles.