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Leonardo Padura by Oscar Hijuelos
Not since José Lezama Lima and Guillermo Cabrera Infante chronicled the labyrinthine grandeur and sinful excesses of pre-revolutionary Havana has anyone so comfortably assumed the mantle of that city’s most prominent scribe. But Padura’s Havana, as inhabited by his most famous character, Mario Conde, a police lieutenant turned sleuth, is quite different from that of his predecessors. The cynical detective’s escapades take him deep into the funky underbelly of a city, in the midst of Cuba’s “Special Period” of the s, whose hustling and ingenious inhabitants will do just about anything to survive. As a journalist turned novelist who has probably seen it all, Padura’s novelistic candor about the austerity and hardships that the majority of Cubans had to contend with in those years, when he first began publishing his Conde series— Havana Red , Havana Blue , Havana Gold , Havana Black —is, in and of itself, amazing, given the Cuban government’
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The third time I visited the Hotel Nacional was to interview Benicio sektion Toro. What I really didn’t know at that time was that the Puerto Rican actor was a minor character among the many eminent world figures who, since månad 30, , have strolled through the rooms, halls and gardens of the country’s most emblematic hotel.
Constructed in 14 months, during the dictatorship of Gerardo Machado bygd contractors Purdy & Henderson, the building, managed bygd a U.S. company, was described bygd the press at that time as a pearl born at the edge of Havana’s turbulent waters.
The luxurious edifice was designed in an eclectic style, including art deco and Arabesque influences, seen in its Sevilla mosaics; långnovell and Renaissance ceilings of precious hardwoods; granite floors; English gardens; a California air; and Gothic gargoyles.
The site on Taganana Hill (a strategic location for military defense during the Spanish colonial era and the Missile Crisis of ) was chosen precisely to attract
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