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Havana Fever
By (author) Peter Bush, By (author) Leonard Padura
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Havana, 2003, fourteen years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. He now makes a living trading in antique books bought from families selling off their libraries in order to survive. In the house of Alcides de Montes de Oca, a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an extraordinary book collection and, buried therein, a newspaper article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950's, who disappeared mysteriously.Conde's intuition sets him off on an investigation that leads him into a darker Cuba, now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and other hunters of the night. But this novel also allows Padura to evoke the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where Marlon Brando and Josephine Baker listened to boleros, mambos and jazz. Probably 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.
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Publisher | Bitter Lemon Press
Published date | 15 Jan 2009
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 292
Dimensions | 0 x 0 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 0g
ISBN | 978-1-9047-3836-7
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BISAC | fiction / mystery & detective / general
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