The Painter of Battles

I really like a couple of Reverte's earlier novels (Flanders/Dumas). However POB moved so very slowly I just couldn't get into it. He does still paint such intricate & detailed scenes like few other authors can, but and I gave up about half way through.

A magnificently conceived novel which almost always manages to avoid being tedious and pretentious. The characters, especially Olvido, however, do not.