by Léonardo Padura · METAILIE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782864247555
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«L'homme qui aimait les chiens» is the novel by Leonardo Padura published by Métailié in paperback (672 pages, in French).
In Havana, Iván recalls his 1977 encounter with a mysterious walker of borzoi hounds who seems to know Ramón Mercader, Trotsky's assassin. From his confidences emerges a story that crosses the lives of the Soviet leader and his executioner, from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War and the crime in Mexico, and that dialogues with present-day Cuba.
French translation by René Solis and Elena Zayas. Edition in the Bibliothèque hispano-américaine collection. Published in January 2011.
For readers interested in twentieth-century political history and contemporary Cuban narrative.
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.
