Overview
A classic detective story that explores the last years of Hemingway''s life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. When the bones of a man murdered forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer and ex-cop Mario Conde is called in to investigate. As he unearths the truth of the night of 3 October 1958, he is forced to come to terms with a very different side to his former literary hero.
Padura Fuentes switches between Conde''s world and that of Hemingway''s Cuba four decades earlier; in the heat and rum haze, the two seem slowly to merge. In an extraordinary journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century´s most enigmatic and powerful writers, a masterful and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery that will keep you in suspense until the very final pages.
- | Author: Leonardo Padura Fuentes, John King
- | Publisher: Canongate Books
- | Publication Date: Jan 17, 2005
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- | Language: eng
- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9781841955414
- | ISBN-10: 1841955418