by Leonardo Padura · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483835777
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«El hombre que amaba a los perros» is the historical novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (768 pages, in Spanish).
Iván, an aspiring writer, meets a mysterious walker of two Russian greyhounds in Havana in 1977. Years later, he recalls that man's confidences: the story of Leon Trotsky and Ramón Mercader, his assassin, and how their lives crossed in Mexico. The narrative alternates that past with Iván's life in contemporary Cuba.
2011 edition in the Maxi collection (number 27). The work won the Premio Anual de la Crítica, the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde, and the Athens Prize for Literature.
For readers of historical fiction and literary fiction interested in Trotsky's assassination, the Spanish Civil War, and contemporary Cuba.
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.
