by Arturo Pérez-Reverte · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441986
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«El Maestro de Esgrima» is the historical novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte, published by Alfaguara in paperback (356 pages, in Spanish).
Don Jaime Astarloa, a veteran fencing master in late 19th-century Madrid, agrees to instruct a mysterious woman, Adela de Otero, in the thrust of the two hundred escudos. Accepting the request plunges Don Jaime into a political conspiracy of deceit and crimes, with honor and ambition as the backdrop.
The novel was originally published in 1988, was adapted into a movie by Pedro Olea and belongs to the Alfaguara Hispánica collection.
Periodista, ex reportero de guerra y novelista español, autor de la saga del capitán Alatriste y de novelas como La tabla de Flandes y El club Dumas.
