Leonardo Padura, Author TusQuets $18.95 (232p) ISBN 978-84-8310-162-9
This is the fourth volume of Padura's Las cuatro estaciones (The Four Seasons), a series of detective novels . The Cuban-born Padura won the Premio Cafe de Gir""n in 1995 and the Premio Hammett for best detective novel in 1997 and 1998 for the...
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Leonardo Padura, Author TusQuets $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-84-8310-199-5
A Cuban literary critic, scriptwriter, and journalist, Padura is known for his award-winning series of detective novels, Las cuatro estaciones (The Four Seasons). In the latest of his mystery novels he dwells on the famous Cuban patriot and poet
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Leonardo Padura, trans. from the Spanish by Anna Kushner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-0-374-20174-6
The man who loved dogs, in Cuban author Padura’s (Havana Gold) epic novel, is Jaime Lopez, an elderly Spaniard living in ’70s Havana who claims to have been a friend of the man who assassinated Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940. An accomplished...
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Leonardo Padura, trans. from the Spanish by Anna Kushner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (544p) ISBN 978-0-374-16885-8
In Heretics, Padura (The Man Who Loved Dogs) unfurls nearly 400 years in the disparate fortunes of the Kaminsky family, who, in 1939, flee Nazi Germany for Havana having staked their survival on a single family heirloom: a small portrait of Christ...
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Leonardo Padura, Author, Peter Bush, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Bitter Lemon $14.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-904738-36-7
Part biblio-mystery, part tragedy and all brilliant, Padura's follow-up to his Havana Quartet (Havana Gold
, etc.) finds Mario Conde 14 years after retiring from the police force pursuing books instead of criminals, acting as a book scout to...
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Leonardo Padura, Author, Peter Bush, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Bitter Lemon $14.95 (261p) ISBN 978-1-904738-15-2
At the start of the well-plotted second volume of Padura's seething, steamy Havana Quartet (after 2005's Havana Red
), Cuban detective Mario Conde (aka "the Count") is approaching the end of his police career and his 36th birthday...
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Leonardo Padura, Author, Peter Bush, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Bitter Lemon $14.95 (244p) ISBN 978-1-904738-22-0
Blending noirish police procedural with vivid images of life in contemporary Cuba, Padura has produced another gem in the third of his Havana Quartet (after Havana Black
and Havana Red
). Police lieutenant Mario Conde is roused from a post–New
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Leonardo Padura, Author, Peter Bush, Translator , trans. from the Spanish by Peter Bush. Bitter Lemon $14.95 (286p) ISBN 978-1-904738-28-2
Mario Conde, Padura's tormented Cuban police detective, is at his anguished best in this sequentially second volume of the so-called Havana Quartet, which constitutes a four-season chronicle of one year (1989) in Conde's life, though it
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Leonardo Padura, trans. from the Spanish by Anna Kushner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-374-27795-6
Dressed in the grungy trappings of a crime drama, this literary tour-de-force from Padura (Grab a Snake by the Tail) offers a colorful cultural history of Cuba and the island’s historical contact with Europe that helped to shape its people’s...
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