A classic detective story that explores the last years of Hemingway''s life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. When the bones of a man murdered forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer and ex-cop Mario Conde is called in to investigate.

As he unearths the truth of the night of 3 October 1958, he is forced to come to terms with a very different side to his former literary hero.

Padura Fuentes switches between Conde''s world and that of Hemingway''s Cuba four decades earlier; in the heat and rum haze, the two seem slowly to mergeIn an extraordinary journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century´s most enigmatic and powerful writers, a masterful and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery that will keep you in suspense until the very final pages.



Format Häftad Omfång 240 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Canongate Books Utgivningsdatum 2005-01-17 ISBN 9781841955414