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The Man Who Loved Dogs

by Leonardo Padura

Farrar. 2014. 593p. tr. from Spanish by Anna Kushner. ISBN 9781466837102. $35; pap. ISBN 9780374535070. $20. CUBA

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In a switch from Padura's customary detective fiction, this 2012 winner of Cuba's National Prize for Literature follows both renegade revolutionary Leon Trotsky on his exile from Russia and his assassin Ramón Mercader (the eponymous dog lover), climaxing with their fatal confrontation in Mexico.

Reviewed by Lawrence Olszewksi , Oct 01, 2014

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