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Havana red / Leonardo Padura

By:

Padura, Leonardo, (, 1955-)

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Bitter Lemon Press , 2009, c1997.Description: ix, 233 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9781904738091 º

Subject(s):

Police -- --Cuba -- --Havana -- --Fiction

Genre/Form:

Mystery fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC PAD

Summary: "A magnificent novel. Haunted by the tragic story and passion of its characters."-Magazine Litteraire The first of the Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A young transvestite in a beautiful red dress is found strangled in a Havana park. Conde's investigation into a violent murder exposes a stifling, corrupt society, a Cuban reality where nothing is what it seems. A dark and fascinating world of men and women born in the revolution who live without dreaming of exile and seek their identity in the midst of disaster. Leonardo Padura lives in Cuba. He is a novelist, essayist, journalist and scriptwriter. Havana Red has won numerous literary prizes, including the Hammett prize in Spain.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC PAD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		021336

Translation of: Máscaras.

"A magnificent novel. Haunted by the tragic story and passion of its characters."-Magazine Litteraire The first of the Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A young transvestite in a beautiful red dress is found strangled in a Havana park. Conde's investigation into a violent murder exposes a stifling, corrupt society, a Cuban reality where nothing is what it seems. A dark and fascinating world of men and women born in the revolution who live without dreaming of exile and seek their identity in the midst of disaster. Leonardo Padura lives in Cuba. He is a novelist, essayist, journalist and scriptwriter. Havana Red has won numerous literary prizes, including the Hammett prize in Spain.

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