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El Capitán Alatriste (Película completa)

El Capitán Alatriste. Película basada en la novela de Arturo Pérez Reverte que ofrece una visión clara de la decadencia y fin de...

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'Alatriste' can be translated as 'the gloomy one', a name presumably chosen by the author to reinforce the idea of a 'Golden Age' Spain already showing signs of decline.
El capitán Alatriste (Captain Alatriste, 1996): In 1623, Diego Alatriste and Italian sword-for-hire Gualterio Malatesta are paid by two mysterious masked characters to kill a pair of unknown English visitors in Madrid as news reaches the city that the Spanish siege of Bergen op Zoom has been repelled.
The Adventures of Captain Alatriste is a series of Historical Fiction novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte starring a Spanish soldier-turned-mercenary-turned-sword-for-hire, the titular Diego Alatriste y Tenorio (who was never an actual Captain in the Army, but was called that way).
Although I own the Alatriste books in the original, they have been, in fact, translated into English and (in order) go: Captain Alatriste, Purity of Blood, The Sun Over Breda, The King's Gold, The Man in Yellow Doublet, The Pirates of the Levant and finally, the afore-mentioned The Bridge of Assassins.
Yolk is a beautifully-written novel set in New York that follows two sisters – Jayne and June. With a difficult relationship, both are keeping secrets from the other, so when Jayne actually sees her sister (for the first time in a year) she is shocked to find out she has cancer.