num_pages: 229
description: When the skeletal remains of a man brought down by shotgun surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, writer, drinker, and ex-cop Mario Conte reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate the forty-year-old crime. As the truth of the night of October 3, 1958, slowly reveals itself, Conte must come to terms with his idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway on Cuba's sun-drenched docks, back when Conde was a child tagging along with his grandfather.Padura Fuentes weaves Conte's world with that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier, a period marking the beginning of Hemingway's decline. In the heat-and-rum haze, the eras and personas begin to merge.
language: English
title: Adiós Hemingway
titlecomplete: Adiós Hemingway
characters: Mario Conde
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Latin American, Spanish Literature, Noir, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 1604
places: Havana
series: Mario Conde
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Deutscher Krimi Preis
category: 3. Platz International
publisher: Canongate U.S.