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THE TRANSPARENCY OF TIME

Padura, Leonardo

Εκδότης Bitter Lemon Press , ISBN 9781913394578

From Leonardo Padura-whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana-'The Transparency of Time' sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. 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 favour 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 Santeria appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla-a black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue. Through vignettes from the life of a Catalan peasant named Antoni Barral, who appears throughout history in different guises-as a shepherd during the Spanish Civil War, as vassal to a feudal lord-we trace the Madonna to present-day Cuba.

With Barral serving as Conde's alter ego, unstuck in time, and Conde serving as the author's, we are treated to a panorama of history, and reminded of the impossibility of ever remaining on its sidelines, no matter how obscure we may think our places in the action. Equal parts 'The Name of the Rose' and 'The Maltese Falcon', 'The Transparency of Time' cements Leonardo Padura's position as the preeminent literary crime writer of our time.

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From Leonardo Padura-whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana-'The Transparency of Time' sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history. 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 favour 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 Santeria appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla-a black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue. Through vignettes from the life of a Catalan peasant named Antoni Barral, who appears throughout history in different guises-as a shepherd during the Spanish Civil War, as vassal to a feudal lord-we trace the Madonna to present-day Cuba.

With Barral serving as Conde's alter ego, unstuck in time, and Conde serving as the author's, we are treated to a panorama of history, and reminded of the impossibility of ever remaining on its sidelines, no matter how obscure we may think our places in the action. Equal parts 'The Name of the Rose' and 'The Maltese Falcon', 'The Transparency of Time' cements Leonardo Padura's position as the preeminent literary crime writer of our time.

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Padura, Leonardo
  • Eκδότης Bitter Lemon Press
  • ISBN 9781913394578
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100075223
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2021
  • Σελίδες 432
  • Διαστάσεις
  • Βάρος 350 gr

Padura, Leonardo

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Γεννήθηκε το 1955 στην Αβάνα. Έχει εργαστεί ως σεναριογράφος, δημοσιογράφος και κριτικός. Έχει γράψει μυθιστορήματα, διηγήματα και δοκίμια. Εκείνη όμως που τον έκανε παγκοσμίως γνωστό είναι η αστυνομική τετραλογία του "Οι τέσσερις εποχές" με πρωταγωνιστή τον ντέντεκτιβ Μάριο Κόντε, στην οποία ήρθαν αργότερα να προστεθούν άλλα δύο βιβλία με τον ίδιο ήρωα, "Παρελθόν χαμένο στην ομίχλη" (ή: "Η αχλή του χθες") και το "Αντιός, Χέμινγουεϊ". Τα βιβλία του έχουν μεταφραστεί σε πολλές γλώσσες, ενώ έχει βραβευτεί στην Κούβα, την Ισπανία, τη Γαλλία, τη Γερμανία, τη Δομινικανή Δημοκρατία και την Αυστρία.

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