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Padura, Leonardo

Εκδότης Bitter Lemon Press , ISBN 9781908524782


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 will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear.Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel's son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family's lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana.In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt's gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times.

A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura's novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its centre.

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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 will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear.Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel's son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family's lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana.In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt's gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times.

A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura's novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its centre.

Πληροφορίες προϊόντος

  • Συγγραφέας Padura, Leonardo
  • Eκδότης Bitter Lemon Press
  • ISBN 9781908524782
  • Κωδικός Ευριπίδη 040100062981
  • Έτος κυκλοφορίας 2017
  • Σελίδες 0
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  • Βάρος 0 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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