by Leonardo Padura · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490667293
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«La transparencia del tiempo» is the crime novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Planeta in paperback (448 pages, in Spanish).
Detective Mario Conde, about to turn sixty, agrees to recover the statue of a black virgin that a school friend inherited from his grandfather, who fled the Catalan Pyrenees after the Civil War. From the underworld of Havana emerges a plot involving foreign collectors, while interspersed chapters narrate the history of the medieval carving up to Cuba.
Eighth installment in the Mario Conde series and winner of the Valencia Negra Prize 2018.
Recommended for readers of crime novels, thrillers, and followers of the Mario Conde novels.
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.
