{"product_id":"libro-pintor-de-batallas-el","title":"The Painter of Battles","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThere are places from which one never returns. Arturo Pérez-Reverte's most intense and unsettling novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a tower by the Mediterranean, searching for the photo he could never take, a former photographer paints a large circular fresco on the wall: the timeless landscape of a battle. He is accompanied in the task by a face returning from the past to collect a mortal debt, and the shadow of a woman who disappeared ten years ago. Around these three characters, Arturo Pérez-Reverte has written the most intense and unsettling story of his long career as a novelist.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDazzling from beginning to end, \u003ci\u003eThe Painter of Battles\u003c\/i\u003e drags the reader, captivated, through the complex geometry of 20th-century chaos: art, science, war, love, lucidity, and solitude combine in the vast mural of a dying world.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCritics have said...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«\u003ci\u003eThe Painter of Battles\u003c\/i\u003e is, in my opinion, Pérez-Reverte's most disheartening, harshest, and saddest book. And also surely the most lucid, as well as the most ambitious, intellectually and literarily.»\u003cbr\u003eJosé Manuel Sánchez Ron, \u003ci\u003eEl País\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«The Spanish writer returns to his past as a war correspondent through this impressive novel... Hardly any book has immersed the reader so deeply in the mire of evil as this one.»\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Palou, \u003ci\u003eLe Figaro Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Because he has drawn on experience, because he is a seasoned writer forced to share his doubts and scruples with readers, \u003ci\u003eThe Painter of Battles\u003c\/i\u003e is, simply, a great book.»\u003cbr\u003eJacques de Decaer,  \u003ci\u003eLe Soir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e«Arturo Pérez-Reverte once again confirms his place as a great master of the historical \u003ci\u003ethriller\u003c\/i\u003e in this masterful novel that combines secrets buried under the ashes of a tragic past, philosophical glosses, and a diabolical sense of intrigue. Captivating.»\u003cbr\u003eElias Lévy, \u003ci\u003eVoir-Québec\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arturo Pérez-Reverte","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43348712849656,"sku":"9788490626627","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/4897\/5608\/products\/P62662B.jpg?v=1665538038","url":"https:\/\/ellector.com.pa\/es\/products\/libro-pintor-de-batallas-el","provider":"Librerías El Lector Panamá","version":"1.0","type":"link"}