by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Carlota Pérez-Reverte · Punto de Lectura · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466309578
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«El capitán Alatriste» is the historical novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Carlota Pérez-Reverte published by Punto de Lectura in paperback.
Diego Alatriste, a veteran of the tercios of Flanders, scrapes a living as a hired swordsman in seventeenth-century Madrid. His commissions drag him through taverns and corrales de comedias until they entangle him in the intrigues of a corrupt and decadent court, where Francisco de Quevedo composes sonnets and Lope de Vega's performances end in knife fights.
First instalment of the series «Las aventuras del capitán Alatriste»; 2005 edition, 272 pages.
For readers of historical and swashbuckling fiction, with courtly intrigues, duels and the atmosphere of the Spanish Golden Age.
Spanish journalist, former war reporter and novelist, author of the Captain Alatriste saga and novels such as The Flanders Panel and The Club Dumas.
