The transparency of time /
2014. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday, a failing body, a slower mind and the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money. Rescue comes in the form of a new case, an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of San...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from Spanish. |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | 2014. Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday, a failing body, a slower mind and the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money. Rescue comes in the form of a new case, an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla, a black Madonna. Conde must delve as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published in Spanish in 2018 by Tusquets Editores, Spain, as La transparencia del tiempo. |
| Physical Description: | 402 pages ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780374277956 0374277958 |