by Leonardo Padura · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483837214
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«La neblina del ayer» is the crime novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (368 pages, in Spanish).
Havana, summer 2003. Mario Conde, a disillusioned former policeman, makes a living buying and selling second-hand books. The discovery of a valuable library puts him on the trail of Violeta del Río, a bolero singer who retired in the 1950s, and his investigation uncovers a past hidden for decades as he explores the darkest side of the city.
It belongs to the Mario Conde series, of which it is the sixth instalment. The novel was originally published in 2003, while this Maxi-Tusquets edition is from 2013.
For readers of noir and crime fiction, and for those who know the Mario Conde detective series by Leonardo Padura.
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.
