Arturo Pérez-Reverte imagines a world of banks and rivers where people cross bridges without seeing what lies ahead. He muses that one could wish to erase past events, yet fate always pushes toward an inevitable ending. He also likens life to a restaurant bill that must eventually be paid.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for RTVE for 21 years (1973–1994). His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1986.
