Leonardo Padura builds the great novel of Cuban exile

Cuban writer Leonardo Padura at his home in Mantilla, Havana, Cuba.Yander Zamora

The drama of exile has long been one of Leonardo Padura's great obsessions and a recurring theme in his literature. Almost twenty years ago he wrote La novela de mi vida , one of his top books, in which he recreates the life of the great romantic poet José María Heredia, exiled in the United States in 1823 after participating in a conspiracy against the Spanish colonial power. For the Princess of Astur ...

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