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Havana Red
Leonard Padura
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Description for Havana Red
Paperback. A young transvestite is found strangled in a Havana park. Mario Conde's first investigation into a young man's violent murder exposes the equally disturbing death of his beloved Cuba. Translator(s): Bush, Peter. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246. A Mario Conde Mystery. 238 pages. A young transvestite is found strangled in a Havana park. Mario Conde's first investigation into a young man's violent murder exposes the equally disturbing death of his beloved Cuba. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FF. Dimension: 199 x 131 x 18. Weight: 244. Translator(s): Bush, Peter.
On August 6 th 1989 , the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration, the body of a strangled transvestite is discovered in the humid undergrowth of the Havana Woods. He is wearing a beautiful red evening dress and the red ribbon with which he was asphyxiated is still round his neck. To the consternation of Lieutenant Mario Conde, in charge of the investigation, the victim turns out to be Alexis Arayan, the son of a highly respected diplomat. His investigation begins with a visit to the home of the 'disgraced' dramatist, Alberto Marques, with ... Read more
On August 6 th 1989 , the day on which the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the Transfiguration, the body of a strangled transvestite is discovered in the humid undergrowth of the Havana Woods. He is wearing a beautiful red evening dress and the red ribbon with which he was asphyxiated is still round his neck. To the consternation of Lieutenant Mario Conde, in charge of the investigation, the victim turns out to be Alexis Arayan, the son of a highly respected diplomat. His investigation begins with a visit to the home of the 'disgraced' dramatist, Alberto Marques, with ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Number of pages
238
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904738091
SKU
V9781904738091
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About Leonard Padura
Leonardo Padura was born in 1955 in Havana and lives in Cuba. He is a novelist, essayist, journalist and scriptwriter. Havana Red has been published in Cuba, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Germany and France. It is the first of the Havana Quartet of Lieutenant Mario Conde novels to be published in English.
Reviews for Havana Red
"Padura's powerful writing creates an atmospheric picture of a turbulent city, illuminated by Conde's sardonic commentary." Sunday Telegraph Conde is thrown into the thick of a tangled web of mysticism, politics and subversive activity. The subterfuges adopted by people in everyday life, particularly in a climate of repression, are captured perfectly in Padura's seamy, heat-soaked pages and Conde's mask ... Read more