"The finest crime-fiction writer in the Spanish language...""--The
London Times""Full of atmosphere and descriptions to savour, this
is as much a life-affirming tribute to Havana as a fine novel of
death and detection.""--The Independent""Police work is not merely
a vocation but a metaphor for a futile yearning to solve the
island's deepest crimes and misdemeanours."--"Times Literary
Supplement"
Mario Conde has retired from the police force and makes a living
trading in antique books. Havana is now flooded with dollars,
populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and other hunters of
the night. In the book collection of a rich Cuban who fled after
the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an article about Violeta del
Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950s who disappeared
mysteriously. A murder soon follows. This is a crime story set in
today's darker Cuba, but it is also an evocation of the Havana of
Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where the paths of
Marlon Brando and Meyer Lansky crossed.
Probably Leonardo Padura's best book, "Havana Fever" is many
things: a suspenseful crime novel, a cruel family saga, and an ode
to literature and his beloved, ravaged island.
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