The Transparency of Time--A Novel
- Authors
- Leonardo Padura
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Size
- 1.15 MB
- Lang
- en
From Leonardo Padurawhose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in HavanaThe Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history.Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money.Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of SanterĂa appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen deReglaa black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the...