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1) Havana Black
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 4
Language
English
Description
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.
2) Havana blue
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.
3) Havana Gold
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.
4) Mascaras
Author
Series
Serie Mario Conde volume 3
Publisher
Tusquets Editores
Pub. Date
2012, ©1997
Language
Español
Description
En la tupida arboleda del Bosque de La Habana aparece un 6 de agosto, día en que la Iglesia celebra la transfiguración de Jesús, el cuerpo de un travesti con el lazo de seda roja de la muerte aún al cuello. Para mayor zozobra del Conde, aquella mujer "sin los beneficios de la naturaleza", vestida de rojo, resulta ser Alexis Arayán, hijo de un respetado diplomático del régimen cubano. La investigación se inicia con la visita del Conde al impresionante...
Author
Series
Language
Deutsch
Description
Havanna, 27. Mai 1939: Die MS St. Louis fährt im Hafen ein. An Bord: 937 jüdische Flüchtlinge aus Deutschland. Daniel Kaminsky wartet an Land auf Eltern und Schwester. Doch die Einreise wird allen verweigert, das Schiff fährt zurück nach Europa. Amsterdam, 1648: Elias, ein Schüler Rembrandts, wird vom mächtigen Rabbinerrat aufgrund seiner Malerleidenschaft aus der Stadt verstoßen. Der Meister selbst gibt ihm sein Porträt mit auf den Weg ins...
6) Heretics
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...
Author
Series
Mario Conde mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly proportioned Lieutenant Patricia Chion, a frequent object of his nightly fantasies, he couldn't resist. The case proves to be unusual. Pedro Cuang, a lonely old man, is found hanging naked from a beam in the ceiling of his dingy room. One of his fingers has been...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money.
Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down...
Author
Language
Español
Description
La mejor de las novelas de Mario Conde: el asesinato de un exdirigente cubano en el momento de máxima efervescencia en Cuba con la visita de Barack Obama.
«La más redonda, compleja y fascinante historia de Conde... Una excelente noticia para el género. No es fácil rematar una novela así.» Juan Carlos Galindo, El País (Babelia) «Un festín de personajes complejos llenos de vida.» José María Pozuelo, Abc Cultural «Padura refuerza su condición...
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