by Leonardo Padura · Maxi-Tusquets · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788483839089
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«Adiós, Hemingway» is the crime novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (192 pages, in Spanish).
Mario Conde, a former policeman turned second-hand bookseller, recalls his childhood encounter with Hemingway in Cojímar. Forty years later, human remains with two gunshot wounds appear in the garden of Finca Vigía alongside an FBI plaque; the case intersects with the writer's final years in Cuba.
Fifth installment of the Mario Conde series, published in the MAXI collection; this paperback edition came out on September 9, 2014.
For readers of crime and detective fiction who appreciate plots set in Havana and the figure of Hemingway.
Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes 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.
