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The painter of battles

Abandoning the battlefield for an isolated life on the Spanish coast, war photographer Andrés Faulques spends his time painting murals containing images of human conflict, until his solitude is interrupted by a man whose life had been altered forever by one of Faulques' images.

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  • "Abandoning the battlefield for an isolated life on the Spanish coast, war photographer Andrés Faulques spends his time painting murals containing images of human conflict, until his solitude is interrupted by a man whose life had been altered forever by one of Faulques' images."@en
  • "Faulques, a war photographer, witnessed most of the wars of the end of the 20th Century, but he was never able to capture the photo that would explain the chaos of the universe. Now, as continues to try to understand it, he starts painting a grand circular fresco on the inside wall of a tower on the Mediterranean, disturbed by the memories of a woman he can never forget, and an unexpected visit: a man who wants to kill him."@en
  • "Intense and turbulent, this is a book about war, love and the human capacity for both violence and empathy. It asks very profound questions about human nature and the role of the artists, but it also has the intensity of a psychological thriller as the painter trades stories with the man who has come to kill him."@en
  • "Abandoning the battlefield for an isolated life on the Spanish coast, war photographer Andres Faulques spends his time painting murals containing images of human conflict, until his solitude is interrupted by a man whose life had been altered forever by one of Faulques's images."
  • "A man lives alone in a watchtower by the sea. On the circular walls of the tower he is painting a grand mural - the timeless landscape of a battle. He is a former war photographer, and the painting is his attempt to capture the photo he was never able to take. But one day a stranger knocks on his door and announces that he has come to kill him. The man is a shadow from his past, one of the myriad faces of war, and now the consequences of his actions are brought home to him."@en
  • "Andrés Faulques is a world-renown war photographer, retired to a tower atop Spain's Cala del Arrèz, where he is painting a large mural on the inside walls and reminiscing on conversations with his missing colleague (and girlfriend), Olvido, about the changing art of chronicling war from paintings to photographs. As he reflects, Faulques is unpleasantly surprised by a visitor, the brooding and disconsolate Ivo Markovic ... They first met in a war-torn town in the Balkans, when Faulques photographed Markovic, then a wounded and shell-shocked student recently mobilized for the Croatian Army. Markovic challenges Faulques to remember the intense photograph, a picture for which Faulques had won the prestigious Europa Focus award, and for which Markovic experienced some fame, and much peril. Markovic has come to kill him, but not before making sure Faulques understands his story--that he is more than just a snapshot for a magazine cover, that he is part of a tragedy-stricken, hope-deprived culture, and participant in many atrocious battles."@en

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  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Spanish fiction"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"@en
  • "Downloadable audio books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Audiobooks"@en

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  • "The painter of battles"@en
  • "The painter of battles"
  • "The painter of battles a novel"@en
  • "The painter of battles [a novel]"@en

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