The Man Who Loved Dogs Padura Leonardo
The Man Who Loved Dogs Padura Leonardo A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of…
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The Man Who Loved Dogs Padura Leonardo
A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940In The Man Who Loved Dogs, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramon Mercader.The story revolves around Ivan Cardenas Maturell, who in his youth was the great hope of modern Cuban literature--until he dared to write a story that was deemed counterrevolutionary. One afternoon, he meets a mysterious foreigner in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. When we meet him years later in Havana, Ivan is a loser: a humbled and defeated man with a quiet, unremarkable life who earns his modest living as a proofreader at a veterinary magazine.
This is "the man who loved dogs," and as the pair grow closer, Ivan begins to understand that his new friend is