![]() ![]() But tonight something is different: as Julián becomes increasingly concerned that his wife won’t return from her art class, he imagines what Daniela-at 20, at 30 years old, without a mother-will think of his novel about a man tending to his bonsai. ![]() Call to register at (847) 448-8620!Įach night, Julián, a young professor of literature, has improvised a story about trees for his stepdaughter, Daniela. Copies of Leonardo Padura’s The Man Who Loved Dogs(Spanish: El hombre que amaba a los perros) will be held at the 2nd floor Readers Services Desk one month before the discussion. Discussions may also be in English and Spanish. Attendees have the option to read in English and/or Spanish. The group will meet Wednesday, February 8, 7-8:00 pm, 3rd Floor, Seminar Room, Main Library. As the pair grow closer, Iván begins to understand that his new friend is hiding a terrible secret… One afternoon, he meets a mysterious foreigner in the company of two Russian wolfhounds. ![]() Years later, he’s a humbled and defeated man living a quiet, unremarkable life. The story revolves around Iván Cárdenas Maturell, once the great hope of modern Cuban literature–until he wrote a story deemed counterrevolutionary. ![]() Leonardo Padura brings a noir sensibility to a fascinating and complex political narrative: the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky in Mexico. ![]()
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