The Man Who Loved Dogs
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: 978-0-374-53507-0
- EAN: 9780374535070
- Produktnummer: 19374127
- Verlag: Farrar Strauss & Giroux
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 592 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B14.1 cm x D4.3 cm 501 g
- Gewicht: 501
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Leonardo Padura; Translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner
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