Arturo Perez-Reverte

En ekstraordinær kærlighedsroman af forfatteren til bestsellerne Det flamske maleri, Dumas-Klubben og Fægtemesteren. Året er 1928. En atlanterhavsdamper glider gennem natten. Inciterende tangomusik flyder ud i mørket. På dansegulvet en kvinde og en mand, fremmede for hinanden og fra helt forskellige verdener. Det er overklassekvinden Mecha og livsnyderen Max, der er ansat af rederiet som professionel dansepartner. I 1937 genforenes de ved på Den Franske Riviera i skyggen af krigstruslerne, der hænger over Europa. Og næsten 40 år senere mødes de til en skakturnering i Italien og ser tilbage på det liv, de hver især har levet. Tangodanseren er en medrivende og dramatisk fortælling om et Europa i opbrud, om intriger og jetsetliv og om to mennesker, der går gennem tilværelsens tilskikkelser uden at miste stil og værdighed. Fortalt med tangoens dunkende rytme og med raffineret krydsklipning mellem tid og sted.

Un profesor de universidad que ha rodado por Europa como una bola del desierto sin echar raices en ningun lugar, regresa a Ibiza, donde paso sus mejores anos de joven, para asistir junto con su hijo, del que vive separado hace ya tiempo, a la lluvia de estrellas de la magica noche de San Lorenzo. La contemplacion del cielo, el olor del campo y del mar y el recuerdo de los dias pasados desatan en el la melancolia, pero tambien la imaginacion. Llamazares regresa al genero novelistico con una obra magistral en la linea de La lluvia amarilla, del que vendio mas de 200.000 ejemplares. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "A handsome young couple, driven by an urgent passion to experience life, lose themselves in each other's eyes while dancing to a tango not yet written in the silent and empty ballroom of a transatlantic ship. Unknowingly tracing in their embrace the sketch of an unreal world whose weary lights have begun to give out." A strange bet between two musicians leads one of them to Buenos Aires in 1928; an espionage affair in the French Riviera during the Spanish Civil War; and a disquieting game of chess in the Sorrento of the 1960s... El tango de la Guardia Vieja is a sweeping story of obscure and passionate love, betrayal and intrigue that spans over four decades of a fascinating and convulsed century, in the fading twilight of a time that is coming to an end.

WINNER OF THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2014

Don Quijote de la Mancha Edicion de la Real Academia Espanola RAE Adaptada por Arturo Perez-Reverte Disfruta de la esencia de El Quijote, gracias a la rigurosa y eficaz adaptacion de la Real Academia Espanola y Arturo Perez Reverte. Edicion de la RAE adaptada con gran maestria por el novelista, periodista y academico Arturo Perez-Reverte. Se eliminaron las historias paralelas y se reenumeraron y fundieron varios capitulos para facilitar la lectura sin interrupciones. Se mantiene el texto original de Cervantes sin desnaturalizarlo ni empobrecerlo. Prologos de Arturo Perez-Reverte y Dario Villanueva (Secretario de la RAE). Contiene ilustraciones originales ineditas, incluida una de Francisco de Goya. Edicion conmemorativa del III Centenario de la RAE. Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes RAE Edition / Adapted by Arturo Perez-Reverte. This first school-oriented edition of Don Quixote ever published by the Real Academia Espanola (RAE) offers Cervantes s original text brilliantly abridged by renowned author, journalist, and scholar Arturo Perez-Reverte. This new edition gives readers of all ages and reading proficiency levels easy access to the greatest classic in Spanish literature. Enjoy the essence of Don Quixote thanks to the rigorous and compelling adaptation by the Real Academia Espanola and Arturo Perez-Reverte. RAE edition masterfully adapted by novelist, journalist, and academic Arturo Perez-Reverte. Eliminates parallel stories, and combines and renumbers various chapters to facilitate uninterrupted reading. Maintains Cervantes s original text"

Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman who immediately captures his imagination. Tanger Soto, who works for the naval museum in Madrid, is obsessed with Dei Gloria, a Jesuit ship sunk by pirates in the seventeenth century, and now - she hopes - resting on the bottom of the sea off the southern coast of Spain. Tanger uses her manipulative skills with men and her expertise with documents, atlases, and nautical maps to chart the search for lost treasure. Coy is quickly drawn into the search, and before long finds himself falling in love. As these characters follow the course of past sailors, their own journey becomes perilous. Are there secrets dwelling in the depths of the sea? And what of the depths of the heart? This highly intelligent and meticulously plotted novel combines the richness of atmosphere we have come to expect from Perez-Reverte with the romance and mystery of the sea found in the novels of Melville, Conrad, and O'Brian. An unforgettable adventure.'A classic of its genre, equal to the best of Eric Ambler and Patrick O'Brian - and, beyond genre, not far below the levels and depths plumbed by Melville and Conrad themselves . . . In a virtually perfect fusion of absorbing action and precise, intricate characterisation, Perez-Reverte magically sustains the tension and suspense over a span of almost 500 pages' Kirkus Reviews

Taidekriitikko Alejandra Veralan saa tehtäväkseen etsiä Euroopan salaperäisimmän graffitimaalarin, Sniperin, joka on salannut henkilöllisyytensä huolellisesti. Kun Lex lopulta tavoittaa mystisen taiteilijan Napolista, on edessä suuri tulikoe.

Captain Alatriste's latest adventure - a story of skirmishes, privateers, boarded ships, swords and sackings.'This was a time where Spain was revered, feared and hated in the easterly seas; where the devil had no colour, no name and no flag, and where the only thing needed to summon hell on earth (or sea for that matter) was a Spaniard and his sword'Alatriste is back - this time on the high seas! Accompanied by his faithful companion Inigo, the captain joins a Spanish galleon and sets sail from Naples towards the east on a journey that will take them to Melilla, Oran, and finally Malta where they must struggle against the Turk. On board they will have many adventures, including an encounter with The Moor Gurriato. Now seventeen, Inigo is still in love with Angelica but will wisdom come with age and experience?

The third in the bestselling Captain Alatriste series.

The sixth novel in the international bestselling adventures of Captain Alatriste, set in a time when the only thing needed to summon hell on earth--or sea--was a Spaniard and his sword. Accompanied by his faithful foster son, igo, Captain Alatriste accepts a job as a mercenary aboard a Spanish galleon. The ship sets sail from Naples on a journey that will take them to some of the most remote--and wretched--outposts of the empire: Morocco, Algeria, and finally to Malta for a stunning and bloody battle on the high seas that will challenge even the battle-hardened Alatriste's resolve. Now seventeen, igo is almost ready to leave Alatriste, his foster father and fellow soldier. But will age and experience bring wisdom, or is he likely to repeat many of his mentor's mistakes?

The fifth novel in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, a seventeenth-century swashbuckler and "a twenty-first-century literary phenomenon"(Entertainment Weekly). In the cosmopolitan world of seventeenth-century Madrid, Captain Alatriste and his prot g igo are fish out of water. But the king is determined to keep Alatriste on retainer--regardless of whether his "employment" brings the captain uncomfortably close to old enemies. Alatriste begins an affair with the famous and beautiful actress, Mar a Castro, but soon discovers that the cost of her favors may be more than he bargained for--especially when he and igo become unwilling participants in a court conspiracy that could lead them both to the gallows.

Captain Alatriste returns in a swashbuckling tale of intrigue, romance and regicide. Captain Alatriste's affair with the beautiful actress Maria de Castro is rankling not only his long-term mistress but also the King of Spain. With loyal companion Inigo distracted by the affections of Angelica, Alatriste becomes embroiled in a series of tussles outside his lover's house. Ambushed by arch-nemesis Malatesta, a skirmish ensues that leads to the death of Maria's other lover - the monarch himself. But behind this tale of sexual jealousy lurks a darker truth. As it becomes clear that both Alatriste and Inigo have been cunningly honey trapped - and that the dead man was an impostor. With a puppet king waiting dutifully in the wings, Alatriste must use all his cunning and swordsmanly guile to prevent the murder of the real king - and his implication in a crime for which he has been perfectly framed.

From international bestselling author Arturo P rez-Reverte comes the fourth adventure of Captain Alatriste in the "series that] recalls the great adventure novels of Dumas and Scott"(The New York Times). Seville, 1626. After serving with honor at the bloody siege of Breda, Captain Alatriste and his prot g , I igo Balboa, accept a risky job involving a dozen swordsmen and mercenaries at their command, a dazzling amount of contraband gold, and a heavily guarded Spanish galleon returning from the West Indies. The job offer comes from the king himself, for at stake is nothing less than the Spanish Crown, and its dominion over the wealth of the Americas. But for Alatriste, a very personal surprise awaits him on that galleon.

In this fourth instalment, Captain Alatriste becomes involved in a mission to save the King of Spain's gold... Swashbuckling adventure and high octane action. The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going war in Flanders. He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core, as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country's infamous treasure fleet. As various factions within the Court vie for supremacy, certain interests are creaming off undeclared profits from the galleons' cargo, thus depriving the royal treasury of its lifeblood. Indeed some of the booty is finding its way into the hands of the same rebel provinces Spain is fighting to suppress. The King and his most trusted advisor, the Count-Duke Olivares, have become aware of one such plot and have decided to teach the perpetrator a lesson. Once more, they must call upon Captain Alatriste's blade in a dangerous adventure that will bring the captain face to face with his nemesis, and with a ruthless man who has designs on the throne...

A compelling tale of art, love and war...

The third swashbuckling adventure in the internationally acclaimed Captain Alatriste series. Fifteen-year-old I igo Balboa enlists to serve as his master's aide, and narrates their further adventures of swordplay and skirmishes, mutiny and wartime honor, as Captain Alatriste rejoins his Cartagena regiment to take part in the battles and siege of Breda. In Spain, Alatriste's nemesis, Luis de Alqu zar, grows more powerful, as I igo's mysterious friend Ang lica hints at some plans upon his return. Once again the exploits of the seventeenth-century mercenary will thrill and delight the legions of readers eager to cheer a hero for the ages.