Havana fever
Padura, Leonardo (, 1955-)
Havana fever / Leonardo Padura ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush - London : Bitter Lemon Press , 2009. - 286 p. ; 20 cm.
"First published in Spanish as La neblina del ayer by Tusquets Editores, S.A., Barcelona, 2005"--T.p. verso.
Mario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunters of the night. In the book collection of a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s who disappeared mysteriously. A murder soon follows. This is a crime story set in todays darker Cuba, but it is also an evocation of the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where the paths of Marlon Brando and Meyer Lansky crossed. Probably Leonardo Paduro's best book, Havana Fever is many things: a suspenseful crime novel, a cruel family saga, and an ode to literature and his beloved, ravaged island.
9781904738367
2009396258
Ex-police officers----Fiction
Antiquarian booksellers----Fiction
Missing persons----Fiction
Conde, Mario (Fictitious character)----Fiction.
Havana (Cuba)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PQ7390.P32 / A6 2009
LAS FIC PAD
Havana fever / Leonardo Padura ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush - London : Bitter Lemon Press , 2009. - 286 p. ; 20 cm.
"First published in Spanish as La neblina del ayer by Tusquets Editores, S.A., Barcelona, 2005"--T.p. verso.
Mario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunters of the night. In the book collection of a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s who disappeared mysteriously. A murder soon follows. This is a crime story set in todays darker Cuba, but it is also an evocation of the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where the paths of Marlon Brando and Meyer Lansky crossed. Probably Leonardo Paduro's best book, Havana Fever is many things: a suspenseful crime novel, a cruel family saga, and an ode to literature and his beloved, ravaged island.
9781904738367
2009396258
Ex-police officers----Fiction
Antiquarian booksellers----Fiction
Missing persons----Fiction
Conde, Mario (Fictitious character)----Fiction.
Havana (Cuba)----Fiction
Mystery fiction
PQ7390.P32 / A6 2009
LAS FIC PAD
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