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Adios Hemingway

Leonardo Padura

  • 218 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2005
  • 11 editions
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1 About this book

When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth.

In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero. Padura Fuentes cuts between Conde's world and that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier.

  • Mystery
  • Detectives
  • Murder
  • Caribbean fiction
  • Investigation
  • Autores estadounidenses
  • Cuba

2 About Leonardo Padura

Born 1955

Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes (born October 10, 1955) 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.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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