Heretics
(Book)

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Kushner, Anna, Translator
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Status
Central - Adult Detective
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Format
Book
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529 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English

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In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope will save them: a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ. Yet six days later the vessel is forced to leave the harbor with the family, bound for the horrors of Europe. The Kaminskys, along with their priceless heirloom, disappear. Nearly seven decades later, the Rembrandt reappears in an auction house in London, prompting Daniel's son to travel to Cuba to track down the story of his family's lost masterpiece. He hires the down-on-his-luck private detective Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana. In Heretics, Leonardo Padura takes us from the tenements and beaches of Cuba to Rembrandt's gloomy studio in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, telling the story of people forced to choose between the tenets of their faith and the realities of the world, between their personal desires and the demands of their times. A grand detective story and a moving historical drama, Padura's novel is as compelling, mysterious, and enduring as the painting at its center.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Padura, L., & Kushner, A. (2017). Heretics (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Padura, Leonardo and Anna, Kushner. 2017. Heretics. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Padura, Leonardo and Anna, Kushner. Heretics Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Padura, Leonardo,, and Anna Kushner. Heretics First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

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