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Havana Blue (Mario Conde Mystery 3) (Paperback)

by Leonardo Padura (Author), Peter Bush (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 286 pages
  • Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press (2 April 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0285650181
  • ISBN-13: 978-1904738220
  • ASIN: 1904738222
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 128,682 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year's Eve hangover. Though it's the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their student days: good-looking, brilliant, a "reliable comrade'' who always got what he wanted, including Tamara the girl Conde was after. But Rafael Morin's exemplary rise from a poor barrio and picture perfect life hide more than one suspicious episode worthy of investigation. While pursuing the case in a decaying but adored Havana, Conde confronts his lost love for Tamara and the dreams and illusions of his generation.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Okay, 24 April 2009
By S. Hill "Stevie" (Durham, England) - See all my reviews
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This is a novel about Cuba. Indeed, Cuba might be said to be the main character. Padura's characters are the same age as him, approaching 40 in the 1990s, "a faceless, aimless, gutless generation."

It is a detective novel of the hard-boiled school, and reviewers have compared the style to Raymond Chandler's; but Chandler was never so crude. In Carofiglio's The Past is a Foreign Country (which I read shortly before this) there was a character who "liked to swear. He probably thought it made him sound virile ... The effect was quite the opposite, but he would never know." I'm afraid the central character's language reminded me of this comment. This may have been at least partly because of the translation, which was stilted in parts and contained some strange figures of speech.

Since the book is about Cuba, we have cigars, food, some music, rum and cheap wine, drinking and hangovers. The story concerns the disappearance of a businessman (actually, someone in a Government ministry, since this is Cuba). The disappeared man (Rafael), his wife, and Conde the detective all grew up together. Rafael disappears and the questioning of those who knew him - which takes up the bulk of the narrative - tells his story, illustrating different facets of him and of Cuba's recent history.

Interesting on Cuba, but not a great crime novel.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A little gem, 9 Oct 2007
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This series offers crime thrillers with the twist of the detective (the melancholic Inspector Conde) needing to deal with the political intrigues of Communist Cuba. It doesn't dwell on politics but focuses on Conde's friendships and the unfulfilled promise of the Cuban revolution. Not a complex plot but you should read this to get a feel for the atmosphere of Cuba and Havana.
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