Leonardo Padura
Author
Series
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly proportioned Lieutenant Patricia Chion, a frequent object of his nightly fantasies, he could n't resist. The case proves to be unusual. Pedro Cuang, a lonely old man, is found hanging naked from a beam in the ceiling of his dingy room. One of his fingers has
...Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores S.A
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Formats
Description
La mejor de las novelas de Mario Conde: el asesinato de un exdirigente cubano en el momento de máxima efervescencia en Cuba con la visita de Barack Obama.
«La más redonda, compleja y fascinante historia de Conde... Una excelente noticia para el género. No es fácil rematar una novela así.» Juan Carlos Galindo, El País (Babelia) «Un festín de personajes complejos llenos de vida.» José María Pozuelo, Abc Cultural «Padura refuerza su condición...
3) Heretics
Author
Series
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...
6) Havana gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
7) Havana blue
Author
Series
Publisher
Bitter Lemon
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.
Author
Series
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...
9) Havana black
Author
Series
Publisher
Bitter Lemon
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
10) Adiós, Hemingway
Author
Series
Colección Andanzas ; 595
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español