The Fencing Master
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: September 7, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780156006842
First sentence: Much later, when Jaime Astarloa wanted to piece together the scattered fragments of the tragedy and tried to remember how it all began, the first image that came to his mind was of the marquis and of the gallery in the palace overlooking the Retiro Gardens, with the first heat of summer streaming in through the windows, accompanied by such brilliant sunlight that they had to squint against the dazzle on the polished guards of their foils.