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The Man Who Loved Dogs

The Man Who Loved Dogs

by Leonardo Padura (Author), Anna Kushner (Author), Leonardo Padura (Author), Anna Kushner (Author), Leonardo Padura (Author)

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Synopsis

Cuban writer Ivan Cardenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him the man who loved dogs . The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramon Mercader, the man who killed Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940, and that he is now living in a secret exile in Cuba after being released from jail in Mexico. Moving seamlessly between Ivan's life in Cuba, Mercader's early years in Spain and France, and Trotsky's long years of exile, The Man Who Loved Dogs is Leonardo Padura's most ambitious and brilliantly executed novel yet. It is the story of revolutions fought and betrayed, the ways in which men's political convictions are continually tested and manipulated, and a powerful critique of the role of fear in consolidating political power.

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Format: paperback
 Publisher: BITTER LEMON PRESS
Published:
ISBN 10: 1908524448
ISBN 13: 9781908524447

Media Reviews
A stunning novel, chronicling the evisceration of the Communist dream and one of the most ruthless, calculated and useless crimes in history. Financial Times When this novel was published in Spanish, it received literary acclaim across Europe and rightly so, for it is a monumental work. Independent Padura has entered the Latin American Modernist canon by writing a Russian novel with a Tolstoyan passion for historical trifles and Dostoyevskyan pleasure in examining the moral life of its characters NY Times
Author Bio
Leonardo Padura was born in Havana in 1955. A novelist, journalist, and critic, he is the author of several novels, one collection of essays, and a volume of short stories. His Havana series crime novels featuring the detective Mario Conde, published in English by Bitter Lemon Press, have been translated into many languages and have won literary prizes around the world.