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 Ramon Mercader.
The story revolves around Ivan Cardenas Maturell, who in his
youth was the great hope of modern Cuban literature--until he dared
to write a story that was deemed counterrevolutionary. When we meet
him years later in Havana, Ivan is a loser: a humbled and defeated
man with a quiet, unremarkable life who earns his modest living as
a proofreader at a veterinary magazine. One afternoon, he meets a
mysterious foreigner in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. This
is "the man who loved dogs," and as the pair grow closer, Ivan
begins to understand that his new friend is hiding a terrible
secret.
Moving seamlessly between Ivan's life in Cuba, Ramon's early
years in Spain and France, and Trotsky's long years of exile, "The
Man Who Loved Dogs "is Padura's most ambitious and brilliantly
executed novel yet. This is a story about political ideals tested
and characters broken, a multilayered epic that effortlessly weaves
together three different plot threads-- Trotsky in exile, Ramon in
pursuit, Ivan in frustrated stasis--to bring emotional truth to
historical fact.
A novel whose reach is matched only by its astonishing successes
on the page, "The Man Who Loved""Dogs "lays bare the human cost of
abstract ideals and the insidious, corrosive effects of life under
a repressive political regime.
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