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El hombre que amaba a los perros

By: Leonardo Padura
Narrated by: Jorge Tito Gómez Cabrera
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Summary

En 2004, a la muerte de su mujer, Iván, aspirante a escritor y ahora responsable de un paupérrimo gabinete veterinario de La Habana, vuelve los ojos hacia un episodio de su vida, ocurrido en 1977, cuando conoció a un enigmático hombre que paseaba por la playa en compañía de dos hermosos galgos rusos. Tras varios encuentros, «el hombre que amaba a los perros» comenzó a hacerlo depositario de unas singulares confidencias que van centrándose en la figura del asesino de Trotski, Ramón Mercader. Gracias a esas confidencias, Iván puede reconstruir las trayectorias vitales de Liev Davídovich Bronstein, también llamado Trotski, y de Ramón Mercader, también conocido como Jacques Mornard, y cómo se convierten en víctima y verdugo de uno de los crímenes más reveladores del siglo xx.

Desde el destierro impuesto por Stalin a Trotski en 1929, y desde la infancia de Mercader en la Barcelona burguesa, sus amores y peripecias durante la Guerra Civil, o más adelante en Moscú y París, las vidas de ambos se entrelazan hasta confluir en México. Ambas historias completan su sentido cuando sobre ellas proyecta Iván sus avatares vitales e intelectuales en la Cuba contemporánea y su destructiva relación con el hombre que amaba a los perros.

Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2018 Leonardo Padura (P)2018 Tusquets Editores, S.A.
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The first part is not easy to follow but the end was incredible ! I enjoy a lot . A very close friend told me she leave her country after reading this book because it shows you a falling economic system.

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excellent experience

This was such an amazing book! The performance also enhanced the experience - great clarity and pace.

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I listened to the first 24 hours of this cleverly built, well researched, richly detailed novel. Then I gave it up. The text unravels the themes of three protagonists: Ramón Mercader as the future assassin of Leon Trotsky, the victim itself along his exile years and the narrator obsessed with both of them. The way Mr. Padura fills the historical gaps is quite remarkable, whilst we know only a few things about Mercader with certainty. Well, that’s we keep writers for. When we hear about the assassination of Trotsky, we recite the password: ice axe! Now you will learn a bit more ont he era and political motivations and human weakness.
There’s one thing why I am unable to say it is a masterpiece. The writing is so dry it hurts my ears. Nowhere a flicker of originality, a blob of humor, a tiny tiny colour ont he grey scale. And in addition to the dead prose there’s a narrator who is simply absent during the whole reading. Perhaps he was dreaming of Márquez or Llosa all the time.

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