by Leonardo Padura · Maxi-Tusquets · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788490663578
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In 'La novela de mi vida', Leonardo Padura immerses us in a Cuba full of history and mystery. Fernando Terry, after years of exile, returns to Havana in search of the lost autobiography of the poet José María Heredia. This search leads him to confront suspicions from the past and discover parallels between his life and Heredia's, revealing how Cuban history can mark the destiny of its creators. An evocation of Romanticism in the colonial Caribbean and a reflection on Cuban national identity.
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.
