num_pages: 240
description: A classic detective story that explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. When the bones of a man murdered forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer and ex-cop Mario Conde is called in to investigate. As he unearths the truth of the night of 3 October 1958, he is forced to come to terms with a very different side to his former literary hero.Padura Fuentes switches between Conde's world and that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier; in the heat and rum haze, the two seem slowly to merge. In an extraordinary journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century�s most enigmatic and powerful writers, a masterful and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery that will keep you in suspense until the very final pages.
language: English
title: Adios Hemingway
titlecomplete: Adios Hemingway
characters: Mario Conde
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 1603
places: Havana
series: Mario Conde
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 3. Platz International
publisher: Canongate Books