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From Leonardo Padurawhose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in HavanaThe Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history.

Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money.

Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Reglaa black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue.

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The Transparency of Time

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 14 June 2022
      ISBN-13 9781250849113
      978-1250849113
      ISBN-10 125084911X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      From Leonardo Padurawhose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in HavanaThe Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history.

      Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money.

      Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Reglaa black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue.

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