by Leonardo Padura · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724123349
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«Morte em Havana» is the crime novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Edições Asa in paperback (224 pages, in Portuguese).
In a forest in Havana, the corpse of a transvestite appears with a red silk scarf. Mario Conde discovers that the victim is Alexis Arayán, son of a high-ranking official of the Cuban regime. Guided by the Marqués, a marginalized homosexual intellectual, Conde ventures into a nocturnal and marginal world where the truth eludes him.
Third title in the Mario Conde series. The edition belongs to the Noites Brancas collection. Work originally published as Máscaras, winner of the Café Gijón Prize in 1995.
Recommended for readers of crime and detective fiction, with a marked Cuban social backdrop.
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.
