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The Transparency Of Time: A Novel
~EN NWISBN: 9780374277956 bzw. 0374277958, vermutlich in Englisch, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States of America, neu.
Lieferung aus: Kanada, plus shipping.
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 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 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.
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 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 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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El Viaje Mas Largo (Coleccion Cultura Cubana) (Spanish Edition) (2002)
EN HC USISBN: 9781563281983 bzw. 1563281988, in Englisch, Editorial Plaza Mayor, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, plus shipping, Shipping area: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, booklab, VA, Chantilly, [RE:3].
Great customer service. You will be happy! Hardcover.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, booklab, VA, Chantilly, [RE:3].
Great customer service. You will be happy! Hardcover.
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El viaje mas largo (Coleccion Cultura cubana) (Spanish Edition) (2002)
EN HC USISBN: 9781563281983 bzw. 1563281988, in Englisch, Editorial Plaza Mayor, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Murray Media [59705792], North Miami Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Great condition with minimal wear, aging, or shelf wear.
Great condition with minimal wear, aging, or shelf wear.
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The Transparency of Time
~EN PB NWISBN: 125084911X bzw. 9781250849113, vermutlich in Englisch, PICADOR, Taschenbuch, neu.
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El viaje más largo (Colección Cultura cubana) (Spanish Edition) (2002)
EN HC US FEISBN: 9781563281983 bzw. 1563281988, in Englisch, 294 Seiten, Editorial Plaza Mayor, gebundenes Buch, gebraucht, Erstausgabe.
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El viaje maïs largo (Coleccio?n Cultura cubana) (Spanish Edition) (2002)
EN HC NW FEISBN: 9781563281983 bzw. 1563281988, in Englisch, Editorial Plaza Mayor, gebundenes Buch, neu, Erstausgabe.
Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Free shipping.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Irish Booksellers [57531671], Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Irish Booksellers [57531671], Portland, ME, U.S.A.
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