The Transparency of Time--A Novel

✍ Scribed by Leonardo Padura

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 322 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0374719934

✦ Synopsis

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 de
Regla--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...