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La Transparencia del Tiempo - by Padura (Paperback)

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  • Un deslumbrante viaje en el tiempo y en la historia de La Habana.A un Mario Conde a punto de cumplir sesenta años, y que se siente más en crisis y más escéptico que de costumbre con su país, le llega de manera inesperada un encargo de un antiguo amigo del instituto, Bobby, que le pide ayuda para recuperar la estatua de una virgen negra que le han robado.
  • Author(s): Padura
  • 448 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Mystery & Detective

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Un deslumbrante viaje en el tiempo y en la historia de La Habana.


A un Mario Conde a punto de cumplir sesenta años, y que se siente más en crisis y más escéptico que de costumbre con su país, le llega de manera inesperada un encargo de un antiguo amigo del instituto, Bobby, que le pide ayuda para recuperar la estatua de una virgen negra que le han robado. Conde descubre que esa pieza es mucho más valiosa de lo que le han dicho, y su amigo tiene que confesarle que proviene de su abuelo español, que, huyendo de la Guerra Civil, la trajo de una ermita del Pirineo catalán. En los bajos fondos de La Habana, Conde da con un sospechoso al que acaban matando. Con el asesinato de otro cómplice, Conde descubre una inesperada trama de galeristas y coleccionistas extranjeros interesados en la talla medieval, y se tropieza inevitablemente con la policía de homicidios de La Habana.


Pero, en capítulos intercalados, La transparencia del tiempo también cuenta la epopeya a lo largo de los siglos de la estatua, una virgen negra traída de la última cruzada a una ermita del Pirineo por un tal Antoni Barral, y será otro Antoni Barral quien la salve y se vea obligado a embarcar como polizón rumbo a La Habana.


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A dazzling journey through time and in the history of Havana.


Mario Conde, who is about to turn sixty, and who feels more in crisis and more skeptical than usual about his country, is unexpectedly commissioned by an old high school friend, Bobby, who asks him for help to recover the statue of a black virgin that has been stolen from him. Conde discovers that this piece is much more valuable than he has been told, and his friend has to confess that it comes from his Spanish grandfather, who, fleeing the Civil War, brought it from a hermitage in the Catalan Pyrenees. In the underworld of Havana, Conde finds a suspect who is eventually killed. With the murder of another accomplice, Conde discovers an unexpected plot of foreign gallery owners and collectors interested in medieval carving, and inevitably stumbles upon the Havana homicide police.


But, in interspersed chapters, La transparencia del tiempo (The Transparency of Time) also tells the epic over the centuries of the statue, a black virgin brought from the last crusade to a hermitage in the Pyrenees by a certain Antoni Barral, and it will be another Antoni Barral who saves it and is forced to embark as a stowaway for Havana.

Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x 1.2 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.05 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: Mystery & Detective
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Number of Pages: 448
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Theme: Police Procedural
Format: Paperback
Author: Padura
Language: Spanish
Street Date: March 13, 2018
TCIN: 1003038587
UPC: 9786070747236
Item Number (DPCI): 247-38-1125
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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Estimated ship dimensions: 1.2 inches length x 5.9 inches width x 8.9 inches height
Estimated ship weight: 1.05 pounds
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