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Heretics: A Novel (Mario Conde Investigates, 8)
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Heretics: A Novel (Mario Conde Investigates, 8) Paperback - 2018

by Padura, Leonardo

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  • Title Heretics: A Novel (Mario Conde Investigates, 8)
  • Author Padura, Leonardo
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition UsedVeryGood
  • Pages 544
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Date 2018-03-13
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 39BI7L002JKR_ns
  • ISBN 9780374537395 / 0374537399
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.5 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Caribbean
  • Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Havana (Cuba)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 863.64

From the publisher

"Padura's Heretics spans and defies literary categories . . . ingenious." --Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air

A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author, Heretics is Leonardo Padura's greatest detective work yet.

In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear.

Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel's son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family's lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana.

In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt's gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times. A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura's novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its center.

About the author

Leonardo Padura was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1955. A novelist, journalist, and critic, he is the author of several novels, including The Man Who Loved Dogs (FSG, 2014); two volumes of short stories; and several nonfiction collections. His novels featuring the detective Mario Conde have been translated into many languages and have won literary prizes around the world. He lives in Cuba.

Anna Kushner was born in Philadelphia and first traveled to Cuba in 1999. She has translated the novels of Guillermo Rosales, Norberto Fuentes, Gonalo M. Tavares, and Leonardo Padura.