by Leonardo Padura · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483831366
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«El hombre que amaba a los perros» is the historical novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (576 pages, in Spanish).
Iván, a veterinarian in Havana and aspiring writer, recalls his encounter with an enigmatic man who walked two Russian borzois. The man's confidences reconstruct the lives of León Trotski and Ramón Mercader, his assassin, between Soviet exile and the Spanish Civil War up to Mexico, and cast light on contemporary Cuba.
Volume 700 of the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores. First edition published in 2009.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American narrative interested in the twentieth century.
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.
