{"product_id":"man-who-loved-dogs","title":"Man Who Loved Dogs","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMan Who Loved Dogs\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLeonardo Padura\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780374535070\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2015\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e592\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Loved Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e, Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to one of the most fascinating and complex political narratives of the past hundred years: the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramón Mercader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story revolves around Iván Cárdenas Maturell, who in his youth was the great hope of modern Cuban literature--until he dared to write a story that was deemed counterrevolutionary. When we meet him years later in Havana, Iván is a loser: a humbled and defeated man with a quiet, unremarkable life who earns his modest living as a proofreader at a veterinary magazine. One afternoon, he meets a mysterious foreigner in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. This is \"the man who loved dogs,\" and as the pair grow closer, Iván begins to understand that his new friend is hiding a terrible secret. \u003cbr\u003eMoving seamlessly between Iván's life in Cuba, Ramón's early years in Spain and France, and Trotsky's long years of exile, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Loved Dogs \u003c\/i\u003eis Padura's most ambitious and brilliantly executed novel yet. This is a story about political ideals tested and characters broken, a multilayered epic that effortlessly weaves together three different plot threads-- Trotsky in exile, Ramón in pursuit, Iván in frustrated stasis--to bring emotional truth to historical fact. \u003cbr\u003eA novel whose reach is matched only by its astonishing successes on the page, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Loved\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDogs \u003c\/i\u003elays bare the human cost of abstract ideals and the insidious, corrosive effects of life under a repressive political regime.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Man Who Loved Dogs | Leonardo Padura | Paperback | 9780374535070 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks A 1751429","offer_id":48927869141144,"sku":"1751429","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71vxpcBz_4L.jpg?v=1777057550","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/man-who-loved-dogs","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}