Recensione:
WORLDWIDE ACCLAIM for What We Become:
"Mr. Pérez-Reverte is an accomplished storyteller, and anyone nostalgic for the lost, elegant days when people dressed for dinner and a tuxedo was obligatory in casinos will find much to delight them here...This thoroughly enjoyable novel cries out to be made into a movie." (The Wall Street Journal)
"[a] riveting and intricately layered historical novel." (O Magazine)
“Sparkling with witty dialogue, this elegantly translated thriller is enthusiastically recommended to sophisticated readers and those who wish to be.” (Library Journal, Starred Review)
“Perez-Reverte summons the romantic spirit of an old black-and-white movie: impossibly glamorous, undeniably wistful.” (Kirkus, STARRED REVIEW)
"Pérez-Reverte, who has written of women and adventure before, along with crime and betrayal,combines them all here in a hypnotic rhapsody of a novel that drinks freely from many genres: historical epic, Hitchcockian thriller, and, above all, grand love story, both heartbreaking and deliciously sexy. Pérez-Reverte masterfully,excruciatingly, jumps back and forth between the three encounters, playing the reader’s emotions masterfully and creating as much tension through the love story as through the derring-do and the betrayals that stain both. An intoxicating entertainment, pulsing with life but, at the same time, with a kind of damp, hidden lament for all that was and is no more.” (Booklist, starred review)
“[What We Become] is an extraordinary novel of love and adventure,passion and intrigue, emotion, betrayal and reunions spanning across four decades of the troubled twentieth century and represented by three fascinating times and places.” (–El Mundo)
“Beautiful language, a gripping story, authenticcharacters and fascinating sceneries – these are the ingredients for anexcellent novel.” (--Nordeutscher Rundfunk)
“A great love story...a fresh documentation of the lost history of Europe.” (– El País)
“What We Become is breathtakingly written.” (–Westdeutscher Rundfunk)
“ Romance, life, desire and adventure, all told by Pérez-Reverte in the best way possible.” (–La Vanguardia)
L'autore:
Arturo Pérez-Reverte is the #1 internationally bestselling author of many critically acclaimed novels, including The Club Dumas, The Queen of the South, and The Siege, which won the International Dagger Award from the Crime Writers’ Association. A retired war journalist, he lives in Madrid and is a member of the Royal Spanish Academy. His books have been translated into more than forty languages and have been adapted to the big screen.
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