Product Description

When a human skeleton is discovered on Ernest Hemingway's home in Havana, police inspector Mario Conde is called up out of retirement to unearth the truth. In the course of his investigations, Conde gradually reconstructs the mysterious goings-on of the night of 3rd October 1958 and in doing so is forced to come to terms with a very different side to the character of his former literary hero. Padura Fuentes cleverly cuts between Conde's world and that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier. In the heat and rum haze, the two seem slowly to merge as the reader is taken on an extraordinary journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and interesting writers. It's a masterful and totally convincing portrait that emerges, as well as a riveting mystery that keeps the reader on tenterhooks until the very final pages.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #139202 in Books
• Published on: 2005-01-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review
"Every page of Adios, Hemingway is very intense and moving: an example of how much literary fiction can get closer to the 'truth' of a man that many critical essays and biographies can do" Bruno Arpaia, II Sole 24 Ore; "A beautiful, involved, intense portrait of the writer, revealing his most authentic face" Liberazione

About the Author
Leonardo Padura Fuentes is one of Cuba's most acclaimed writers and has published essays, stories and novels. John King teaches Spanish as a language as well as the literature of both Spain and Latin America. He was editor of Penguin's bilingual anthology of Spanish short stories and most recently translated Ray Lorgia's Tokyo Doesn't Love Us Anymore (1841954152).

Customer Reviews

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This is the first book I've read by Fuentes. It's short, quite delightful but, as the writer explains in the foreward, more about Hemingway in his last days in Cuba than a detective story. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more had this not been the first time I'm reading Fuentes.