Un deslumbrante viaje en el tiempo y en la historia de La Habana. A un Mario Conde a punto de cumplir sesenta a???os, y que se siente m???s en crisis y m???s esc???ptico que de costumbre con su pa???s, le llega de manera inesperada un encargo de un antiguo amigo del instituto, Bobby, que le pide ayuda para recuperar la estatua de una virgen negra que le han robado. Conde descubre que esa pieza es mucho m???s valiosa de lo que le han dicho, y su amigo tiene que confesarle que proviene de su abuelo espa???ol, que, huyendo ...
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Un deslumbrante viaje en el tiempo y en la historia de La Habana. A un Mario Conde a punto de cumplir sesenta a???os, y que se siente m???s en crisis y m???s esc???ptico que de costumbre con su pa???s, le llega de manera inesperada un encargo de un antiguo amigo del instituto, Bobby, que le pide ayuda para recuperar la estatua de una virgen negra que le han robado. Conde descubre que esa pieza es mucho m???s valiosa de lo que le han dicho, y su amigo tiene que confesarle que proviene de su abuelo espa???ol, que, huyendo de la Guerra Civil, la trajo de una ermita del Pirineo catal???n. En los bajos fondos de La Habana, Conde da con un sospechoso al que acaban matando. Con el asesinato de otro c???mplice, Conde descubre una inesperada trama de galeristas y coleccionistas extranjeros interesados en la talla medieval, y se tropieza inevitablemente con la polic???a de homicidios de La Habana. Pero, en cap???tulos intercalados, La transparencia del tiempo tambi???n cuenta la epopeya a lo largo de los siglos de la estatua, una virgen negra tra???da de la ???ltima cruzada a una ermita del Pirineo por un tal Antoni Barral, y ser??? otro Antoni Barral quien la salve y se vea obligado a embarcar como poliz???n rumbo a La Habana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A dazzling journey through time and in the history of Havana. Mario Conde, who is about to turn sixty, and who feels more in crisis and more skeptical than usual about his country, is unexpectedly commissioned by an old high school friend, Bobby, who asks him for help to recover the statue of a black virgin that has been stolen from him. Conde discovers that this piece is much more valuable than he has been told, and his friend has to confess that it comes from his Spanish grandfather, who, fleeing the Civil War, brought it from a hermitage in the Catalan Pyrenees. In the underworld of Havana, Conde finds a suspect who is eventually killed. With the murder of another accomplice, Conde discovers an unexpected plot of foreign gallery owners and collectors interested in medieval carving, and inevitably stumbles upon the Havana homicide police. But, in interspersed chapters, La transparencia del tiempo (The Transparency of Time) also tells the epic over the centuries of the statue, a black virgin brought from the last crusade to a hermitage in the Pyrenees by a certain Antoni Barral, and it will be another Antoni Barral who saves it and is forced to embark as a stowaway for Havana.
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