The Man Who Loved Dogs is a dystopian novel grounded in the history of the 20th century. Written by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, whose early work includes a well-regarded series of crime novels, this well conceived, expertly crafted novel is absorbing, horrific, and insightful/5. This is "the man who loved dogs," and as the pair grow closer, Iván begins to understand that his new friend is hiding a terrible secret. Moving seamlessly between Iván's life in Cuba, Ramón'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 /5(). “The Man Who Loved Dogs, by Cuban author Leonardo Padura, is a stunning novel, chronicling the evisceration of the Communist dream and one of the most "ruthless, calculated and useless" crimes in history. Spanning wide tracts of the globe, sweeping through some of the most tumultuous events of the 20th century and interweaving the lives of three wildly different characters, this monumental, intricately /5().
The Man Who Loved Dogs Leonardo Padura, trans. from the Spanish by Anna Kushner. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $35 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Leonardo Padura's The Man Who Loved Dogs arrives in English translation already heralded as a historically significant work. Padura, the most successful Cuban novelist who has chosen to remain in the country, has become one of the foremost interpreters of life on the island today. By LAZARO MONTEVERDE "The Man Who Loved Dogs," by Leonardo Padura. (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Originally published in Spanish in as "El hombre que amaba a los perros." Available in hardcover and paperback in both languages. With the publication of "The Man Who Loved Dogs," Cuban writer Leonardo Padura joins the.
The Cuban writer Leonardo Padura’s novel “The Man Who Loved Dogs” weaves the story of Trotsky, his murder and his murderer. The Man Who Loved Dogs is very much a novel of lost illusions and failed ideals. Trotsky in exile spends a great deal of time wondering what went wrong -- and watching Stalin's clever (and horrible) tactics in consolidating power and their implications with frustrated fascination from afar. The Man Who Loved Dogs is a dystopian novel grounded in the history of the 20th century. Written by the Cuban writer Leonardo Padura, whose early work includes a well-regarded series of crime novels, this well conceived, expertly crafted novel is absorbing, horrific, and insightful.
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