Showing results for "Leonardo Padura" in Genre Fiction

Los secretos que guarda la isla solo los desvelará el exilio. En el trauma de la diáspora y la desintegración de los vínculos, esta novela es también un canto a la amistad, a los invisibles y poderosos hilos del amor y las viejas lealtades. Una novela deslumbrante, un retrato humano conmovedor, otra obra cumbre de Leonardo Padura.

Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants nothing more than to tear his life up from the root. He soon finds his escape hatch: a university-sponsored mission to South America to look for indigenous musical instruments in one of the few areas of the world not yet touched by civilization. Retracing the steps of time, he voyages with his lover into a land that feels outside of history.

I 1939 lå dampskibet S.S. Saint Louis nogle dage for anker i Havanas havn med ni hundrede jøder om bord, som det var lykkedes at flygte fra Tyskland, og ventede på indrejsetilladelse til flygtningene. Drengen Daniel Kaminsky og hans onkel stod på kajen og ventede på, at deres familie skulle gå i land, for de var helt sikre på, at familien ville bestikke embedsmændene med den skat, som den havde medbragt i al hemmelighed: Et lille Rembrandt-lærred, der havde tilhørt Kaminsky-familien siden det 17. århundrede.