{"product_id":"the-man-who-loved-dogs-9780374535070","title":"The Man Who Loved Dogs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping novel about the assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico City in 1940\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\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 Ram n Mercader. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story revolves around Iv n C rdenas 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, Iv n 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, Iv n begins to understand that his new friend is hiding a terrible secret. \u003cbr\u003eMoving seamlessly between Iv n's life in Cuba, Ram n'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, Ram n in pursuit, Iv n 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374535070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Leonardo Padura","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36636667936924,"sku":"9780374535070","price":22.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_abc4b2a1-a4ed-4fb6-bf18-616c56967b8f.jpg?v=1603842589","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-man-who-loved-dogs-9780374535070","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}