by Leonardo Padura · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483100110
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«Máscaras» is the crime novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
Lieutenant Mario Conde investigates the discovery of a corpse in Havana's Woods: a transvestite dressed in red, Alexis Arayán, son of a diplomat of the Cuban regime. Guided by the enigmatic Marqués, a reclusive homosexual intellectual, he delves into a world of appearances and double identities.
Third installment of the Mario Conde series, within the tetralogy Las cuatro estaciones. Café Gijón Novel Prize 1995. Number 292 of the Andanzas collection.
For readers of noir and crime fiction interested in Cuban narrative and the character of Mario Conde.
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.
