Havana Blue - formato ePub

Los secretos que guarda la isla solo los desvelará el exilio.El día comienza mal para Adela, joven neoyorquina de ascendencia cubana, cuando recibe la llamada de su madre. Llevan enfadadas más de un año,...

Un sorprendente viaje a La Habana nocturna de los años cincuenta y su música, al mundo de los libros en la isla, y un descenso a los infiernos del mundo habanero de hoy.La Habana, verano de 2003. Han...

Una impresionante fusión de los géneros policiaco e histórico en la nueva novela de Leonardo Padura.En 1939, el barco S.S. Saint Louis, con novecientos judíos que lograron huir de Alemania, estuvo fondeado...

Una investigación que conducirá al detective Mario Conde hasta una antigua trama de corrupciones en la Cuba postrevolucionaria.Una noche de otoño, unos pescadores descubren un cadáver en la playa del...

Una evocación vivísima del Romanticismo en el Caribe de la época colonial, pero por encima de todo una lectura de la historia de Cuba, un viaje al origen de su conciencia nacional a través de la vida...

La mejor de las novelas de Mario Conde: el asesinato de un exdirigente cubano en el momento de máxima efervescencia en Cuba con la visita de Barack Obama.«La más redonda, compleja y fascinante historia...

Un interesante ajuste de cuentas de Mario Conde con su vida y con sus ídolos literarios, pero también una punzante e inolvidable recreación del Hemingway ególatra y contradictorio, acorralado por sus...

La investigación del asesinato de una joven profesora lleva al teniente Mario Conde a adentrarse en el lado oscuro de la Cuba de hoy.En los infernales días de la primavera cubana en que llegan los vientos...

La primera entrega de la exitosa serie policiaca protagonizada por el detective Mario Conde.El primer fin de semana de 1989 una insistente llamada de teléfono arranca de su resaca al teniente Mario Conde,...

Un sorprendente caso en el que el detective Mario Conde investigará un asesinato dentro de la comunidad china de La Habana.Unas cuantas calles casi en ruinas, asediadas por los escombros y los delincuentes,...

"Máscaras" es la novela principal con la que Leonardo Padura presentó al policía Mario Conde en los años noventa. La novela maneja la estructura dicotómica poder/subversión u ocultación/desenmascaramiento...

En 1980, un inexperto Leonardo Padura ingresaba a la redacción de El caimán Barbudo, publicación de los jóvenes creadores cubanos financiada por el Estado. Junto a un grupo de colegas insinuaron...

Tras un macabro asesinato, el teniente Mario Conde debe resolver un caso lleno de implicaciones religiosas, diplomáticas y culturales en la Cuba actual.En la tupida arboleda del Bosque de La Habana aparece...

A los 15 años de su publicación, una edición conmemorativa de El hombre que amaba a los perros. Una de las novelas que sientan las bases de la literatura hispanoamericana del siglo XXI.En 2004, a la muerte...

Los cuentos reunidos del narrador cubano más internacional.El universo habanero de las novelas de Leonardo Padura ya es inconfundible, pero hasta ahora sus relatos nunca habían sido recogidos en un solo...

En 1980, un inexperto Leonardo Padura ingresaba a la redacción de El caimán Barbudo, publicación de los jóvenes creadores cubanos financiada por el Estado. Junto a un grupo de colegas insinuaron una renovación,...

In giving to the world the record of what, looked at as an adventure only, is I suppose one of the most wonderful and mysterious experiences ever undergone by mortal men, I feel it incumbent on me to...

Then came a glimmer of daylight that grew and grew, and presently ended in another arch that looked out over a scene so like a picture out of a book about Italy that everyone's breath was taken away,...

The contents of the work which gave such pleasure to this learned antiquary are as follows:I. IntroductionSimilarity of Arts and CustomsSimilarity of NamesOrigin of the WorkImitationCasual CoincidenceMiltonDante.II....

MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. "Unchecked by external truth, the mind of man has a fatal facility for ensnaring, entrapping, and entangling itself. But, happily, happily for the human race, some fragment...

he Brothers Karamazov, is the final novel by the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Dostoyevsky spent nearly two years writing The Brothers Karamazov, which was published as a serial in The Russian Messenger...

In offering this study to a public accustomed only to the unquestioning acceptance of the home as something perfect, holy, quite above discussion, a word of explanation is needed. First, let it be clearly...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported...

The day that Henry Smix met and embraced Gasoline Power and went up Main Street hand in hand with it is not yet forgotten. It was a hasty marriage, so to speak, and the results of it were truly deplorable....

The first question to be proposed by a rational being is, not what is profitable, but what is Right. Duty must be primary, prominent, most conspicuous, among the objects of human thought and pursuit....

The "Times.""For its rapid action, in fact, we have seldom read a better story, or one which is more full of incidents, sanguinary, trenchant, and robust."The "Daily Telegraph.""A true and a wonderfully...

This book, re-edited and illustrated by e-kitap projesi and published again in ebook format. In this book, telling that Cooterells adventures, and so was a treasure adventure, Naturally then Ben felt...

In Sister Carrie, Dreiser portrayed a changing society, writing about a young woman who flees rural life for the city (Chicago) and struggles with poverty, complex relationships with men, and prostitution....

Tales of Space and Time, A collection of short stories: "The Crystal Egg", "The Star", "A Story of the Stone Age", "A Story of the Days to Come" & "The Man who could Work Miracles" Some Books of...

When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable-looking child ever seen. It was true, too. She had a little thin face and a little...

The SCENE is the Exterior of a Cottage in West Issacshire on a desperately Arcadian afternoon in August. MR. ICKY, quaintly dressed in the costume of an Elizabethan peasant, is pottering and doddering...

COMMON opinion said that Lord Lynborough ought never to have had a peerage and forty thousand a year; he ought to have had a pound a week and a back bedroom in Bloomsbury. Then he would have become an...

This is the third, and probably the last, of the Fairy Books of many colours. First there was the Blue Fairy Book; then, children, you asked for more, and we made up the Red Fairy Book; and, when you...

Have you ever felt that itch in the back of your brain you just can't scratch? A particular gnawing on your mind biting away your best thoughts? Meet Wormy: the literal brain worm residing inside the...

Agatha-nominated series! A madcap mystery set in the off, off, OFF Broadway world of theater (#4 in the Ivy Meadows Mystery series)There's a new sheriff in town—and she can sing! When Gold Bug Gulch's...

Children are not brought up in society to focus on politics. They are often encouraged to enjoy their life and their childhood. It is often said that kids should just be kids. But when there is a political...

Tales From the Tomes: Vol. 1 is a collection of four mystical stories of magic and science. Lance Kehisato weaves the future and the past together, creating a string of four stories in different worlds,...

Cillian is no stranger to the pull of dark magic as he is the son of both the Dark realm Princess and the Light realm Prince. What doesn't help is that he may have been further infused with dark magic...

Aidan Black left the Marine Corps to skip the red tape, but it's a woman from his past he's now trying to avoid… one who believes him capable of murder. Briar Sutton is the last person I expect to see...

Emmaline has been in a coma for two crucial years of her teenage life. Waking life is almost as disorienting, but finally she is reunited with her sister and father. Now she must make up for lost time,...

The Stygian Lepus Magazine is a thrilling foray into dark speculative fiction. In each new edition, readers explore the depths of imagination, where fear and fascination intertwine.Offering diverse genres...

This is a collection of ten horror microfiction tales, sometimes called bite-sized fiction or 'drabbles'. These stories are limited to precisely one-hundred words and aim to pack a punch, all the while...

Nina Rosethorn, a university student, survives a lightning strike and returns home to Vancouver. But the incident triggers a haunting ability: premonitions manifest in her nightmares. Determined to prevent...

Dangerously good-looking. Dangerously breathtaking. This dangerously sinful cowboy is going to steal her heart. When the outback's bare-knuckle champion, Dex Riggs, arrives in Sophie's emergency room,...

The "Love on the Ice" series delivers a pulse-pounding journey through five heart-stopping books that redefine love on and off the hockey rink!Book #1: Melting the Ice Between Us (Novella)I'm not sticking...

SAMSARA'S DEAD HAVE CHOSEN NEL. AND THE CACOPHONY CALLED FOR JUSTICE. Archaeologist Dr. Nel Bently has never been farther from home. With a tenuous ceasefire from Lin's rebellion force and genocidal Harris...