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Author:

Padura, Leonardo, author.

Title:

Heretics / Leonardo Padura ; translated from the Spanish by Anna Kushner.

Edition:

First American edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

528 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Jewish refugees--Germany--Fiction.
Art thefts--Investigation--Fiction.
Deception--Fiction.
Private investigators--Havana--Havana--Fiction.

Other Authors:

Kushner, Anna, translator.

Other Titles:

Herejes. English.

Notes:

"Originally published in Spanish in 2013 by Tusquets Editores, Spain as Herejes."

Contents:

Book of Daniel -- Book of Elias -- Book of Judith -- Genesis.

Summary:

When his family{u2019}s treasure, a small Rembrandt portrait of Christ that disappeared 70 years earlier, reappears in an auction house in London, the son of Cuban refugees hires a down-on-his-luck private detective, Mario Conde, and together they navigate a web of deception and violence in the morally complex city of Havana to find the truth.

ISBN:

0374168857 (hardcover)
9780374168858 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2016025617

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)