A scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The third in the Havana Quartet series.

A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The fourth of the Havana Quartet series.

An impressive and very funny collection of stories by Teresa Solana but the fun is very dark indeed. The oddest things happen. Statues decompose and stink out galleries, two old grandmothers are vengeful killers, a prehistoric detective on the verge of becoming the first religious charlatan trails a triple murder that is threatening cave life as the early innocents knew it. The collection also includes a sparkling web of Barcelona stories--connected by two criminal acts--that allows Solana...

Mario Conde investigates a murder in the Barrio Chino, the rundown Chinatown of Havana. Not his usual beat, but when Conde was asked to take the case by his colleague, the sultry, perfectly proportioned Lieutenant Patricia Chion, a frequent object of his nightly fantasies, he couldn't resist. The case proves to be unusual. Pedro Cuang, a lonely old man, is found hanging naked from a beam in the ceiling of his dingy room. One of his fingers has been amputated and a drawing of two arrows was...

A bawdy romance from 1499 about 2 lovers and their go-between, Celestina

A young cancer researcher ventures through the streets, slums, and subcultures of Francoist Madrid in this widely roving, linguistically inventive novel—a sort of Spanish Ulysses, but infused with the grotesquerie and dark comedy of Goya—available here in a new translation and with previously censored material restored.This novel of abortion and murder set in the squalor of the first decade of General Franco’s dictatorship follows a few days in the life of...

Everything’s made to be broken in this wickedly funny story collection from Catalan’s greatest contemporary writer.

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. Second Conde mystery set in languid Havana.

Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.

"A scathing satire of Spanish society, hilarious dialogue, all beautifully dressed up as a crime novel."-- Krimi-Couch"A first novel that's spread like wildfire by word of mouth."-- El Avui"Teresa Solana is great proof of the vitality of the roman noir in Catalan. . . . A wonderfully ironic hymn to the city of Barcelona."-- Diari de BalearsAnother day in Barcelona, another slimy politician's wife is suspected of infidelity. Lluis Font disc...

Turn-of-the-Century Barcelona comes to life in this rediscovered classic from one of Catalan's most beloved female authors