by Leonardo Padura · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490664797
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«La transparencia del tiempo» is the crime novel by Leonardo Padura featuring Mario Conde, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (448 pages).
Mario Conde, about to turn sixty, helps an old friend recover the stolen statue of a black virgin, more valuable than it seemed. The piece comes from a hermitage in the Catalan Pyrenees and hides a plot involving foreign collectors. Parallel chapters tell the story of the carving from the Crusades to Havana.
Eighth instalment in the Mario Conde series, published in the Andanzas collection by Tusquets Editores. Publication date: 16 January 2018.
For readers of crime fiction and followers of the Mario Conde police series and Cuban narrative.
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.
