The Painter Of Battles
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780297851851 (0297851853)
Publish date: April 1st 2008
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of Orion)
Pages no: 278
Edition language: English
bookshelves: autumn-2013, fraudio, translation, tbr-busting-2013, art-forms, published-2006, spain, war, revenge, philosophy, teh-brillianz, mystery-thriller Read from October 07 to 09, 2013 Simon Vance reads.From the cover: Acclaimed author Arturo Perez-Reverte has earned a distinguished repu...
The Painter of Battles lives in a lighthouse, painting a mural of scenes of famous battles intermixed with personal horror from his own experiences. He is alone, until he is visited by a man from his past who comes to make him think about his life and his role in the atrocities that he experienced a...
This is a story that had to be written. The painter of battles used to be a photographer of battles. But after a time, there was a need for him to process all that he'd seen in war. So he bought a tower on a hill and proceeded to make a war mural to capture the realism of the geometry and laws of wa...