Editorial Reviews
New York Times, August 14, 2005
Another winner from the same publisher, HAVANA RED is an innovative take on the traditional detective story. Marilyn Stasio
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"A magnificent novel. Haunted by the tragic story and passion of its characters."-Magazine Litteraire
The first of the Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde, a tropical Marlowe. A young transvestite in a beautiful red dress is found strangled in a Havana park. Conde's investigation into a violent murder exposes a stifling, corrupt society, a Cuban reality where nothing is what it seems. A dark and fascinating world of men and women born in the revolution who live without dreaming of exile and seek their identity in the midst of disaster.
Leonardo Padura lives in Cuba. He is a novelist, essayist, journalist and scriptwriter. Havana Red has won numerous literary prizes, including the Hammett prize in Spain.
Havana Red,Leonardo Padura,Peter Bush,Bitter Lemon Press,1904738095,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Mystery & Detective - General,Mystery/Suspense,Crime & mystery,Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General
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