Status
Disponível
Series
Collection
Publication
Tusquets (2018), 192 pages
Description
A classic detective story that explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit.
User reviews
LibraryThing member tonynetone
Cuban police detective who leaves the work to become a writer. As he writes in Hemingway,------- Adios Hemingway by Leonardo Padura
Fuentes Ernest Miller Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, Celebrating the life and literature and culture of
September 25th-September 28th, 2008
2008 Theme: Hemingway In Cuba
Fuentes Ernest Miller Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 — July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, Celebrating the life and literature and culture of
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Ernest Hemingway.awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. The Ernest Hemingway FestivalSeptember 25th-September 28th, 2008
2008 Theme: Hemingway In Cuba
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LibraryThing member mldavis2
This is an interesting semi-fictional mystery novel that uses a fictional plot while exploring the last years of Ernest Hemingway's life. Using an alternating time frame, a modern ex-detective and writer examines the character of the great writer and attempts to reveal why he committed suicide.
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While difficult to tell which is fact and which is fiction, Fuentes nevertheless does a nice job of bringing the character of Hemingway back to life. Show Less
LibraryThing member keywestnan
If you're going to read one of Leonardo Padura's Mario Conde novels in English, read this one - the translation is so much better. The story is told half in flashbacks to Ernest Hemingway's final days at the Finca Vigia - and living in a place that celebrates the iconic Hemingway to a sometimes
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obnoxious extent, I can sympathize with Conde - and Padura's - love-hate relationship with the writer. Show Less
LibraryThing member Cecilturtle
This book is definitely a neat twist on the classical murder mystery. The inner turmoil of the main character and his love-hate relationship with Hemingway provides a great opportunity to cast Hemingway in a new light. The dark tones, the heat, the delving into a past long gone give the story a
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noir quality which I thoroughly enjoyed. I stumbled on this book and was glad to have read it. Show Less
LibraryThing member kerns222
Padura struggles with his feelings toward Hemingway as he writes a mystery with his conscience-in-chief, ex-cop detective Conde, struggling with his feelings about Mr. H. A good back and forth (the book alternates between the past with H doing his Papa and Conde doing his detecting (and wearing Ava
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Gardner's tired old panties on his head at one point--is this a spoiler?) while rum drinking with another ode to his friendships with his long term comrades. Show Less
LibraryThing member colligan
Easy read, easy review. Adios Hemingway is a quick, light, but still entertaining read. If you're not offended by some occasional crude language or, somewhat typical for the genre, sexism, this is a great read. The plot is not overheated and the treatment of Hemingway provides a nice backdrop.
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Fuentes' detective, Mario Conde, is human, thoughtful, and likable. Not high literature nor a fast-paced thriller but a very enjoyable and interesting read. Show Less
Subjects
Awards
Deutscher Krimi Preis (2007)
Language
Original language
Spanish
Original publication date
2001
2006
Media reviews
Flashing back and forth between 1958 and the present, ''Adiós Hemingway'' is an elegantly turned meditation on the cold realities of age, the waning of strength and beauty and the production of literary myth. There is also — lest the theme should grow too weighty — some dexterous symbolic work
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with a pair of Ava Gardner's knickers. Show Less