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The Painter of Battles

Arturo Pérez-Reverte,

Margaret Sayers Peden (Translator)

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Mar 18, 2008 Jessica rated it liked it

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A different take from the author - definitely not of the same ilk as The Club Dumas or The Flanders Panel. If those two are the departure from his prior life as a war correspondent, this one is the return leg. Very meditative and tightly focused on exploring the horror of war, both in terms of how we live in it and how we remember it. A thinking man's piece more than the literary mystery I expected. ...more

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