The Man Who Loved Dogs
A Novel
A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader.The story revolves around Iván Cárdenas Maturell, who in his youth was the great hope of modern Cuban literature-until he dared to write a story that was deemed counterrevolutionary. When we meet him years later in Havana, Iván is a loser: a humbled and defeated man with a quiet, unremarkable life who earns his modest living as a proofreader at a veterinary…
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Weitere Autoren: Kushner, Anna (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4668-3710-2
- EAN: 9781466837102
- Produktnummer: 22468487
- Verlag: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'650 KB
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Leonardo Padura; Translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner
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