Leonardo Padura's books
Leonardo Padura, Cuban journalist and writer like few others has given that small great island. Because Leonardo Padura is a vocation and career in the world of letters. Trained in Latin American literature and oriented to journalism as a way out of that love for letters, Padura was little by little…
More than 20 years have passed since the first disillusioned Mario Conde in the world that was presented to us in «Past Perfect». This is the good thing about paper heroes, they can always rise from their ashes to the delight of those of us who let ourselves be carried away by their paths more or less...
I cannot resist the analogy of this title to present my story "Dust in the wind", with the sound, in the background, of the homonymous song from Kansas. May Leonardo Padura forgive me ... The final question is that a title like this, whether for a song or for a book, I point to ...
I recently reviewed the novel God does not live in Havana, by Yasmina Khadra. Today I bring to this space a book that bears certain analogies with the one already referenced, at least in terms of the subjective prism of the scene. Leonardo Padura also offers us a different vision of the capital ...