The Man Who Loved Dogs

by Leonardo Padura

Book Overview

A gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940 In The Man Who Loved Dogs , Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ram n Mercader. The story revolves around Iv n C rdenas Maturell, who in his youth was the great hope of modern Cuban literature--until he dared to write a story that was deemed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374201749
• ISBN13: 9780374201746
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"