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Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Born

in Cartagena, Murcia, Spain

November 25, 1951

Website

http://www.perezreverte.com/

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Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adventure

Influences

Alexandre Dumas, Anthony Hope, Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa, Miguel de Cer ...more

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez, is a Spanish novelist and ex-journalist. He worked as a war reporter for twenty-one years (1973 - 1994). He started his journalistic career writing for the now-defunct newspaper Pueblo. Then, he jumped to news reporter for TVE, Spanish national channel. As a war journalist he traveled to several countries, covering many conflicts. He put this experience into his book 'Territorio Comanche', focusing on the years of Bosnian massacres. That was in 1994, but his debut as a fiction writer started in 1983, with 'El húsar', a historical novella inspired in the Napoleonic era.

Although his debut was not quite successful, in 1988, with 'The Fencing Master', he put his name as a serious writer of historic novels. That ...more

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Mujeres derrotadas, o no

El vino retsina deja en la lengua un agradable sabor a vid y tierra húmeda, y el pulpo asado y las sardinas que están sobre la mesa, a la sombra del cañizo, me llevan a pensar que, hace tres mil años, hombres duros, atezados y silenciosos como los que remiendan las redes a pocos pasos, en el muelle del pequeño puerto, sentían idéntico sabor al comer y beber en el mismo lugar donde me encuentro. Po

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Arturo Pérez-Reverte’s books

Average rating: 3.83 · 265,167 ratings · 19,260 reviews · 191 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 44,609 ratings — published 1993 — 226 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La tabla de Flandes 3.78 avg rating — 27,316 ratings — published 1990 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Captain Alatriste (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #1) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Carlota Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translation) 3.74 avg rating — 18,153 ratings — published 1996 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Queen of the South 3.95 avg rating — 15,867 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid 3.80 avg rating — 11,828 ratings — published 1988 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El italiano 4.05 avg rating — 8,552 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Seville Communion by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia Soto (Translator) 3.70 avg rating — 9,207 ratings — published 1995 — 122 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El problema final 3.64 avg rating — 8,652 ratings — published 2023 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Falcó 3.76 avg rating — 7,865 ratings — published 2016 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Purity of Blood (Adventures of Captain Alatriste, #2) by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator) 3.81 avg rating — 7,456 ratings — published 1997 — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste (9 books)
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Falcó (3 books)
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Artículos (6 books)
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“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

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“You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel

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“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Fencing Master: A Deadly Arcane Secret and a Beautiful Woman Draw a Master into the Shadowy Politics of Madrid

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