LA PUERTA DE ALCALA Y OTRAS CACERIAS

La Puerta de Alcala y otras Cacerias

Padura Fuentes, Leonardo

Calculated Industries

A classic detective story that explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. When the bones of a man murdered forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer and ex-cop Mario Conde is called in to investigate. As he unearths the truth of the night of 3 October 1958, he is forced to come to terms with a very different side to his former literary hero.
Padura Fuentes switches between Conde's world and that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier; in the heat and rum haze, the two seem slowly to merge. In an extraordinary journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century�s most enigmatic and powerful writers, a masterful and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery that will keep you in suspense until the very final pages.

Adios Hemingway

Literature & Fiction

Literary

CANONGATE BOOKS *

When the skeletal remains of a man brought down by shotgun surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer, drinker, and ex-cop Mario Conte reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate the forty-year-old crime. As the truth of the night of October 3, 1958, slowly reveals itself, Conte must come to terms with his idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway on Cuba's sun-drenched docks, back when Conde was a child tagging along with his grandfather. Padura Fuentes weaves Conte's world with that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier, a period marking the beginning of Hemingway's decline. In the heat-and-rum haze, the eras and personas begin to merge.

Adios, Hemingway

Contemporary

Canongate U.S.

L'ecole d'Agathe/Les mercredis d'Agathe/C'est moi Agathe !: Les recrees d'Ag

Rageot Editeur

Sous la menace d’un cyclone automnal, l’inspecteur Mario Conde mène l’enquête sur la mort d’un ancien camarade de classe et haut fonctionnaire du régime castriste, revenu à Cuba pour une raison secrète. En fouillant le passé, Conde plonge dans l’époque des confiscations et des magouilles que la situation a permises. L’enquête s’annonce difficile, les fausses pistes se multiplient, semées de fausses blondes et de faux tableaux dans une Havane chaotique, pleine de secrets.« Bouleversant de tendresse et d’humanité, de justesse et d’émotion. Bilan désenchanté et mélancolique d’une génération. » Le Nouvel ÉconomisteTraduit de l’espagnol (Cuba) par René Solis et Mara Hernandez.

L'Automne à Cuba

Genre Fiction

METAILIE

El primer fin de semana de 1989 una insistente llamada de telefono arranca de su resaca al teniente Mario Conde, un policia esceptico y desenganado. El Viejo, su jefe en la Central, le llama para encargarle un misterioso y urgente caso: Rafael Morin, jefe de la Empresa de Importaciones y Exportaciones del Ministerio de Industrias, falta de su domicilio desde el dia de Ano Nuevo. Quiere el azar que el desaparecido sea un ex companero de estudios de Conde, un tipo que ya entonces, aun acatando las normas establecidas, se destacaba por su brillantez y autodisciplina. Por si fuera poco, este caso enfrenta al teniente con el recuerdo de su antiguo amor por la joven Tamara, ahora casada con Morin. El Conde -asi le conocen sus amigos-, ira descubriendo que el aparente pasado perfecto sobre el que Rafael Morin ha ido labrando su brillante carrera ocultaba ya sus sombras. / Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year's Eve hangover. Though it's the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their student days: good-looking, brilliant, a reliable comrade' who always got what he wanted, including Tamara, the girl Conde was after. But Rafael Morin's exemplary rise from a poor barrio and picture-perfect life hides more than one suspicious episode worthy of investigation. While pursuing the case in a decaying but adored Havana, Conde confronts his lost love for Tamara and the dreams and illusions of his generation.

Pasado Perfecto

Leonardo Padura Fuentes

Tusquets Editores S.A.

Un análisis de la narrativa y el pensamiento de Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) y la evolución de sus postulados sobre lo real maravilloso americano, desde sus primicias en 1923 hasta la publicación de El arpa y la sombra (1979) son el tema de esta obra. A partir de su idea crítica, Padura expone la relación del autor de Viaje a la semilla con el surrealismo, sus polémicas con el realismo mágico y su deslinde de esta concepción. Leonardo Padura es autor de novelas policíacas y ganador del premio Internacional de Novela Negra 1994 con la novela Máscaras.

Un camino de medio siglo. Alejo Carpentier y la narrativa de lo real maravilloso (TIERRA FIRME, 11) (Spanish Edition)

World Literature

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