The Man Who Loved Dogs - Couverture rigide

Padura, Leonardo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374201749 ISBN 13 : 9780374201746

Editeur : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2014

Synopsis

By Leonardo Padura ; Anna Kushner ( Author ) [ Man Who Loved Dogs By Jan-2014 Hardcover

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

'Breathtaking narrative, a masterpiece' -- - Le Figaro

'Best historical novel of the year. The assassination of Trotsky with an ice axe as the starting point of one of the best romans noirs about the 20th century.' -- - Lire

';a wonderful translation by Anna Kushner supports the grand structure of the book, while maintaining Padura s complex and muscular prose. He writes the sort of sentences that require confidence in the political import of literature, which we so rarely see these days in American authors....For an author who lives and writes in the intensely censorious Cuba, the publishing of this book represents not only an impressive artistic achievement but also an act of bravery.' -- Miami Herald

'Its Russian quality comes not only from its length almost 600 pages and the fact that it returns constantly to Moscow, but also from its Tolstoyan passion for historical trifles and Dostoyevskyan pleasure in examining the moral life of its characters.' -- - The New York Times

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Cuban writer Ivan Cardenas Maturell meets a mysterious foreigner on a Havana beach who is always in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. Ivan quickly names him 'the man who loved dogs'. The man eventually confesses that he is actually Ramon Mercader, the man who killed Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940, and that he is now living in a secret exile in Cuba after being released from jail in Mexico. Moving seamlessly between Ivan's life in Cuba, Mercader's early years in Spain and France, and Trotsky's long years of exile, The Man Who Loved Dogs is Leonardo Padura's most ambitious and brilliantly executed novel yet. It is the story of revolutions fought and betrayed, the ways in which men's political convictions are continually tested and manipulated, and a powerful critique of the role of fear in consolidating political power.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0374201749
• ISBN 13: 9780374201746
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 576