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Leonardo padura fuentes born 1955 is a cuban novelist and journalist. I forward to seeing what other books by leonardo padura are available. Oddly, it is the first volume in the quartet available in english translation, but appears to be the third in the series. He hires the downonhisluck private detective mario conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of havana. Aug 09, 2007 padura is best known for the havana quartet, a set of four novels havana red, havana black, havana blue, and havana gold focusing on a fictional police detective by the name of mario conde, a frustrated writer who has spent so many years with the police that he now bemoans the fact that he looks like a policeman. The quartet has been translated into seven languages and has won numerous prizes including spains hammett prize. Janet perez hispanofila, volume 160, septiembre 2010, pp.
Condes intuition sets him off on an investigation that leads him into a darker cuba, now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug. A gripping novel about the assassination of leon trotsky in mexico city in 1940 in 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. It was this upbringing that would shape a lot of his writing to follow, as he took in inspiration from his surrounding environment. Therefore it need a free signup process to obtain the book. But this novel also allows padura to evoke the havana of batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where marlon brando and josephine baker listened to boleros, mambos and jazz. If there is indeed a havana noir driven by evil and violence where is that. Leonardo padura fuentes is the most widely known author working in cuba today. Padura, who was born in havana, took a degree in latin american literature at the university of. Pdf cuba and the night download full pdf book download.
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Another winner from bitter lemonan innovative take on the traditional detective story. Cuban novelist leonardo padura on why obama was a passing. He has published a number of shortstory collections and literary essays but international fame came with the havana quartet, all. Lieutenant mario condes boss, major antonio rangel, has been ousted, and thats the final stroke for him. Cuban novelist leonardo padura on why obama was a passing dream. This book examines six polyphonic cuban novels, published between 1991 and 1999. Havana red is the summerepisode of padura s fourseason havana quartet introducing detective lieutenant mario conde. Food and the fantastic in leonardo paduras las cuatro estaciones. Haunted by the tragic story and passion of its characters.