What We Become

Perez-Reverte has become a poetic writer. What We Become has paragraph after paragraph of astonishing beauty (kudos to his English translators, Nick Castor and Lorenza Garcia) and period detail. Set aboard a transatlantic ocean liner and Rio in the nineteen twenties, the Riviera in the 30's and Sorrento three decades later, the author alternates among the time periods with deftness to propel forward the sum of the central character's life. Each era, respectively, has the cinematic quality of Love Affair the triad Black Orpheus/City of God/Favela Rising, and finally To Catch a Thief.
As with all Perez Reverte novels the theme of personal honor and individual nobility no matter what the circumstances prevails in a distinctly Spanish manner. As to plot, Alexander Dumas is never far away as convoluted violence and in this case torrid sexuality punctuate the story. Yet this novel is quite unlike his hugely popular Dumas-Inspired Captian Alatriste series, rather it builds upon the arc of Queen of the South and The Painter of Battles. (As an aside, Queen of the South is now a new series on AMC TV--an English version of Telemundo's multiyear tremendous hit reviewed recently in The New York Times.)
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Editor: Simon And Schu USA (7 de junio de 2016)
Idioma: Inglés
ISBN-10: 1501154184
ISBN-13: 978-1501154188