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Title: A novel of texture.
Review: Arturo Pérez-Reverte's 1988 novel, mystically casts interesting lights and shadows on the characters of Don Jaime Astarloa, the aging yet regal fencing master and the femme-fatale, Doña Adela de Otero. The story's uncomplicated thread of historical cause-and-effect regarding Spain's social and political mores of the period will keep the reader captivated. Don Jaime, lives to some degree, in all of us.
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