Leonardo Padura
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
Español
Description
"Unas cuantas calles casi en ruinas, asediadas por los escombros y los delincuentes, es lo que queda del viejo Barrio Chino de La Habana. Cuando se adentra en él un Conde ya ex policía, dedicado ahora a la compraventa de libros de segunda mano, no puede evitar recordar que estuvo en ese rincón exótico y agreste de la ciudad muchos años antes, en 1989. Todo surgió de la petición de la teniente Patricia Chion, mujer irresistible, para que le...
Author
Publisher
Tusquets Editores México
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
"A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940"--
"En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Iván, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un paupérrimo gabinete veterinario de La Habana, vuelve los ojos hacia un episodio de su vida, ocurrido en 1977, cuando conoció a un enigmítico hombre que paseaba por la playa en compañía de dos hermosos galgos rusos. Tras varios encuentros, 'el hombre que amaba a los perros'...
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
5) Havana gold
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history"--
2014. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday: a failing body, a slower mind, and the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution swept away in favor 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...
8) Havana red
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
9) Heretics
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
12) Havana Blue
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
13) The lost steps
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants nothing more than to tear his life up from the root. He soon finds his escape hatch: a university-sponsored mission to South America to look for indigenous musical instruments in one of the few areas of the world not yet touched by civilization. Retracing the...