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Havana fever / Leonardo Padura ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush

By:

Padura, Leonardo, (, 1955-)

Contributor(s):

Bush, Peter R., 1946-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Bitter Lemon Press , 2009.Description: 286 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781904738367

Uniform titles:

Neblina del ayer . English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Mystery fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC PAD

LOC classification:

PQ7390.P32 A6 2009

Summary: 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.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC PAD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		006646

"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.

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