- Fiction, History, Historia, España
In 1808, a young soldier in Napoleón's army struggles to cope with the violence and death he witnesses and his growing sense of despair and guilt over his actions.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Arturo Pérez-Reverte
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 217
- Publisher
- Akal Ediciones, Círculo de Lectores, Alfaguara
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Russian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9785699133789
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez (born 25 November 1951 in Cartagena) is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE and was a war correspondent for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, *El húsar*, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels. He is now a member of the Royal Spanish Academy, a position he has held since 12 June 2003. **Source**: [Arturo Pérez-Reverte](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_P%C3%A9rez-Reverte) on Wikipedia.
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