A Mario Conde Mystery
- ISBN-10
- 190473815X
- ISBN-13
- 9781904738152
- Category
- Art thefts
- Pages
- 261
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bitter Lemon Press
- Author
- Leonardo Padura
Description
A brutally mutilated body is discovered washed up in the bay of Havana. The body of Miguel Forcade Mier, head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a dull knife. Conde immerses himself in the dark history of expropriations of works of art, paintings that have vanished without trace, corrupt civil servants and old families that lost much, but not everything. Here is the disillusion of Padura's generation, many of them veterans of the war in Angola, and now discovering the corruption of those that preceded them.
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