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The Transparency of Time--A Novel by Leonardo Padura is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Transparency of Time--A Novel about?
From Leonardo Padura—whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana—The 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 Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen deRegla—a 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...
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Leonardo Padura
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Language
- EN
- Category
- work of fiction