Book Description
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,6 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904738095
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904738850
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904738893
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904738222
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.
Author : Margarita Engle
Publisher : Henry Holt Books For Young Readers
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 34,47 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1627796428
Showcasing the colorful buildings and iconic classic cars of Havana, this verse picture book follows a Cuban boy and his family on their road trip into the city.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904738281
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1904738877
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
Author : Achy Obejas
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1936070235
“[A] superb collection . . . The 18 stories by current and former residents of Havana are gritty, heartbreaking and capture the city.” —Orlando Sentinel To most outsiders, Havana is a tropical sin city. Habaneros know that this is neither new nor particularly true. In the real Havana—the lawless Havana that never appears in the postcards or tourist guides—the concept of sin has been banished by the urgency of need. And need—aching and hungry—inevitably turns the human heart darker, feral, and criminal. In this Havana, crime, though officially vanquished by revolutionary decree, is both wistfully quotidian and personally vicious. In the stories of Havana Noir, current and former residents of the city—some international sensations such as Leonardo Padura, others exciting new voices like Yohamna Depestre—uncover crimes of violence and loveless sex, of mental cruelty and greed, of self-preservation and collective hysteria. Other authors include: Pablo Medina, Alex Abella, Arturo Arango, Lea Aschkenas, Moisés Asís, Arnaldo Correa, Mabel Cuesta, Michel Encinosa Fú, Mylene Fernández Pintado, Carolina García-Aguilera, Miguel Mejides, Achy Obejas, Oscar F. Ortíz, Ena Lucía Portela, Mariela Varona Roque, and Yoss. “[A] remarkable collection . . . gritty tales of deprivation, depravity, heroic perseverance, revolution and longing in a city mythical and widely misunderstood.” —The Miami Herald
Author : Leonardo Padura
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0374714282
"Padura’s Heretics spans and defies literary categories . . . ingenious." —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author, Heretics is Leonardo Padura's greatest detective work yet. 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 will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel’s son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family’s lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana. In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt’s gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times. A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura’s novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its center.
Author : Martin Cruz Smith
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American fiction
ISBN : 0345390458
A novel about the murder of a Russian man in Cuba.