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008			121010s2009 enk 000 f eng
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020			_a9781904738367
042			_alccopycat
050	0	0	_aPQ7390.P32 _bA6 2009
082	0		_aLAS FIC PAD
100	1		_aPadura, Leonardo _d(, 1955-)
240	1	0	_aNeblina del ayer _l. English
245	1	0	_aHavana fever _c/ Leonardo Padura ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Bush
260			_aLondon _b: Bitter Lemon Press _c, 2009.
300			_a286 p. _c; 20 cm.
500			_a"First published in Spanish as La neblina del ayer by Tusquets Editores, S.A., Barcelona, 2005"--T.p. verso.
520			_aMario 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.
650		4	_aEx-police officers _v--Fiction
650		0	_aAntiquarian booksellers _x--Fiction
650			_aMissing persons _v--Fiction
650		4	_aConde, Mario (Fictitious character) _v--Fiction.
651		0	_aHavana (Cuba) _v--Fiction
655		7	_aMystery fiction
700	1		_aBush, Peter R., 1946-
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