Leonardo Padura
1) Herejes
Author
Series
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
In 1939, the S.S. Saint Louis spent several days anchored at Havana while waiting for the Cuban authorities to allow 900 Jewish refugees from Germany into their country. Confident that a painting by Rembrandt that had belonged to their family since the 17th century--and which they had smuggled on board the ship--would convince the Cubans to let them in, little Daniel Kaminsky and his uncle waited at the dock for their relatives to disembark. But the...
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 3
Publisher
Maxi Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Español
3) Máscaras
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 3
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2012, ©1997.
Language
Español
Description
En la tupida arboleda del Bosque de La Habana aparece un 6 de agosto, día en que la Iglesia celebra la transfiguración de Jesús, el cuerpo de un travesti con el lazo de seda roja de la muerte aún al cuello. Para mayor zozobra del Conde, aquella mujer "sin los beneficios de la naturaleza", vestida de rojo, resulta ser Alexis Arayán, hijo de un respetado diplomático del régimen cubano. La investigación se inicia con la visita del Conde al impresionante...
4) Heretics
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde 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...
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 7
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero. Padura Fuentes cuts between Conde's world and that of Hemingway's...
6) Havana black
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 2
Publisher
Bitter Lemon
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"The brutally mutilated body of Miguel Forcade is discovered washed up on a Havana beach. Head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a blunt knife. Forcade was once responsible for confiscating art works from the bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution. Had he really returned from exile just to visit his ailing father? Lieutenant Mario Conde immerses himself in Cuba's dark history, expropriations of priceless paintings now vanished without...
7) Havana blue
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 3
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
When Lieutenant Conde is roused from a terrible hangover and asked to investigate the disappearance of an old schoolmate that married the girl of his dreams, his desire for her threatens the already-sensitive investigation.
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 6
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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 been...
9) Havana red
Author
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"The first of the Havana quartet featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A body is found in a Havana park. A young transvestite dressed in a beautiful red evening dress, strangled. The victim had fled his family, finding refuge with Marqués, an author living alone surrounded only by books, his house in ruins. In the baking heat of the Havana summer Conde investigates, moving through a Cuban reality where nothing is what is seems. Padura's...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
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 Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla-- a black Madonna. Conde must delve as far back as the...
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Twelve journalists and writers examine politics and art, music and baseball, present and past, and offer a snapshot of the particular crossroads at which Cuba finds itself.
Un libro de crónicas cubanas de la mano de doce de los más prestigiosos periodistas y escritores de nuestro tiempo que abarca política y arte, música y béisbol, presente y pasado, y nos ofrecen una excepcional instantánea de la particular encrucijada en la que se encuentra...