Havana Red - Leonardo Padura, Peter Bush (Translator) • BookLikes (ISBN:1904738095)

Havana Red

by: Leonardo Padura (author) Peter Bush (Translator) (author)

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A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

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Format: ebook

ISBN: 9781904738091 (1904738095)

ASIN: 9781904738091

Publish date: 01-05-2005

Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press, Ltd

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Noir, Fiction

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Bettie's Books rated it

10 years ago

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bookshelves: autumn-2014, cuba, noir, play-dramatisation, radio-4, series, translation, published-1997, mystery-thriller, glbt, under-500-ratings Read from November 29 to 30, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04stc63Description: Lieutenant Mario Conde's fondly held prejudices are tested by ...

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AC rated it

13 years ago

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I've lost interest - though this is, I think, a little better than Havana Blue, Padura's characters are finally somewhat artificial and stilted. And plot is not usually enough to carry a book all by itself. The prose can be good, but it is not overwhelming. And so it's simply not worth the effort. M...

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