by Leonardo Padura · CIRCULO DE LECTORES, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467237702
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«El hombre que amaba a los perros» is the novel by Leonardo Padura, published in 2009 by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (633 pages, in Spanish).
The novel interweaves the exile of León Trotski in Mexico, the life of Ramón Mercader, and that of Iván Cárdenas Maturell, a veterinarian who meets a mysterious dog walker on a beach in Havana. Through these threads, Leonardo Padura addresses ideology, betrayal, disillusionment, and the search for meaning.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in the 20th century and the contradictions of political ideologies.
Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist best known for his Mario Conde detective novels and for El hombre que amaba a los perros (2009). In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award. In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain.
