The Transparency of Time
Leonardo Padura's gripping new mystery breaks with the traditions of the detective novel, tracing the provenance of a mystical statue through history, from the Crusades to modern-day Havana.Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favour of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money.Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stole…
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Weitere Autoren: Kushner, Anna (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-913394-58-5
- EAN: 9781913394585
- Produktnummer: 36409659
- Verlag: Bitter Lemon Press Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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Leonaro Padura lives in Havana and is Cuba's best known author of fiction. His Havana Quartet featuring police inspector Mario Conde has been made into a TV series, a radio dramatisation, and been translated all over the world. The Man Who Loved Dogs is his masterpiece and ahs been widely acclaimed.
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