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Personas decentes / Leonardo Padura

Van Pelt - Zilberman Family Center for Global Collections PQ7390.P32 P47 2022
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Padura, Leonardo, author.
Series:
Padura, Leonardo. Serie Mario Conde
Colección Andanzas ; 690/9
Serie Mario Conde
Colección Andanzas ; 690/9.
Language:
Spanish
Subjects (All):
Conde, Mario--Fiction.
Conde, Mario.
Private investigators--Cuba--Havana--Fiction.
Private investigators.
Cuba--Havana.
Genre:
Detective and mystery fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Mystery fiction.
Physical Description:
442 pages ; 23 cm.
Edition:
1.a edición.
Place of Publication:
Barcelona : Tusquets Editores, 2022.
Language Note:
In Spanish.
Summary:
"La Habana, 2016. Un acontecimiento histórico van a sacudir Cuba y poner patas arriba el ritmo de la isla: la visita de Barack Obama en lo que se ha llamado el «Deshielo cubano» la primera visita oficial de un presidente estadounidense desde 1928, acompañada de eventos como un concierto de los Rolling Stones y un desfile de Chanel. Por eso, cuando un exdirigente del Gobierno cubano aparece asesinado y mutilado en su apartamento, la policía, desbordada por la visita presidencial, recurre a Mario Conde para que les eche una mano en la investigación. Conde recordará que el muerto, un hombre déspota y cruel, habíaejercido en el pasado de censor y extorsionado a los artistas para que no se desviaran de las consignas de la Revolución. Cuando unos días después se encuentra un segundo cadáver asesinado en parecidas circunstancias, saltarán todas las alarmas. Paralela a esa trama, se suma una historia istuada un siglo antes, cuando La Habana era la Niza del Caribe y se vivía desenfrenadamente bajo la amenaza del cometa Halley. Para sopresa de Mario Conde, presente y pasado tendrán unos vínculos insospechados."(--from back cover)
"Havana, 2016. A historic event is going to shake Cuba and turn the rhythm of the island upside down: the visit of Barack Obama in what has been called the «Cuban thaw», the first official visit by a US president since 1928, accompanied by events such as a Rolling Stones concert and a Chanel fashion show, so when a former Cuban government leader is found murdered and mutilated in his apartment, the police, overwhelmed by the presidential visit, turn to Mario Conde to get them thrown out. a hand in the investigation. Conde will remember that the dead man, a despotic and cruel man, had served as a censor in the past and extorted artists so they would not deviate from the slogans of the Revolution. When a second corpse is found a few days later murdered in similar circumstances, all the alarms will go off.Parallel to this plot, there is a story from a century before, when Havana was the Nice of the Caribbean and people lived uninhibitedly. under the threat of Halley's Comet. To Mario Conde's surprise, present and past will have unsuspected links."(--from back cover)
ISBN:
9788411071604
841107160X
OCLC:
1345548078

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