Havana Fever von Leonardo Padura

Der Buchtitel „Havana Fever“ vom Autor Leonardo Padura
am 15. 01. 2009 veröffentlicht im Bitter Lemon Press Verlag erschienen.

Serie: Mario Conde Serie Band: 6.0#

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.

“The finest crime-fiction writer in the Spanish language…” *–The London Times* “Full of atmosphere and descriptions to savour, this is as much a life-affirming tribute to Havana as a fine novel of death and detection.” *–The Independent* “Police work is not merely a vocation but a metaphor for a futile yearning to solve the island’s deepest crimes and misdemeanours.”– *Times Literary Supplement* Mario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunters of the night. In the book collection of a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s who disappeared mysteriously. A murder soon follows. This is a crime story set in today’s darker Cuba, but it is also an evocation of the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where the paths of Marlon Brando and Meyer Lansky crossed. Probably **Leonardo Padura** ’s best book, *Havana Fever* is many things: a suspenseful crime novel, a cruel family saga, and an ode to literature and his beloved, ravaged island. **

Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press

Stichworte: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, International Mystery & Crime,