by Leonardo Padura · Planeta Publishing · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483835586
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«Pasado perfecto» is the crime novel by Leonardo Padura, published by Maxi-Tusquets in paperback (240 pages, in Spanish).
In January 1989, Lieutenant Mario Conde, a skeptical policeman, investigates in Havana the disappearance of Rafael Morín, a senior official at the Ministry of Industries and a former classmate. The case confronts him with the memory of Tamara, his old love, now the missing man's wife, and reveals the shadows of an apparently perfect past.
First installment of the Mario Conde series. The work was originally published in 1991 and this edition in 2010.
For those who enjoy classic crime fiction and want to start the Mario Conde detective series with its first installment.
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.
