The transparency of time
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Kushner, Anna, translator.
Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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Status
Central - Adult Fiction
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published in Spanish in 2018 by Tusquets Editores, Spain, as La transparencia del tiempo.
Description
"The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history"--,Provided by publisher.
Description
Mario Conde is facing down his sixtieth birthday. What does he have to show for his decades on the planet? A failing body, a slower mind, and a decrepit country, in which both the ideals and failures of the Cuban Revolution are being swept away in favor of a new and newly cosmopolitan worship of money. Rescue comes in the form of a new case: an old Marxist turned flamboyant practitioner of Santería appears on the scene to engage Conde to track down a stolen statue of the Virgen de Regla-a black Madonna. This sets Conde on a quest that spans twenty-first century Havana as well as the distant past, as he delves as far back as the Crusades in an attempt to uncover the true provenance of the statue. Through vignettes from the life of a Catalan peasant named Antoni Barral, who appears throughout history in different guises-as a shepherd during the Spanish Civil War, as vassal to a feudal lord-we trace the Madonna to present-day Cuba. With Barral serving as Conde's alter ego, unstuck in time, and Conde serving as the author's, we are treated to a panorama of history, and reminded of the impossibility of ever remaining on its sidelines, no matter how obscure we may think our places in the action. --from Amazon.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Padura, L., & Kushner, A. (2021). The transparency of time (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Padura, Leonardo and Anna, Kushner. 2021. The Transparency of Time. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Padura, Leonardo and Anna, Kushner. The Transparency of Time Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Padura, Leonardo,, and Anna Kushner. The Transparency of Time First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
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