The man who loved dogs

Description

“In 2004, upon the death of his wife, Ivan, aspiring writer and now responsible for a very poor veterinary office in Havana, turns his eyes towards an episode of his life, occurred in 1977, when he met an enigmatic man who was walking on the beach in the company of two beautiful Russian greyhounds. After several meetings, 'the man who loved dogs’ began to make him the repository of some singular confidences that focused on the figure of Trotsky's murderer., Ramon Mercader, who knows very intimate details. Thanks to those confidences, Ivan can reconstruct the life trajectories of Liev Davídovich Bronstein, also called Trotsky, and Ramón Mercader, aka Jacques Mornard, and how they become victim and executioner of one of the most revealing crimes of the 20th century. Since the exile imposed by Stalin on Trotsky in 1929 and the painful journey of the exile, and since Mercader's childhood in bourgeois Barcelona, his loves and adventures during the Civil War, or later in Moscow and Paris, Their lives intertwine until they come together in Mexico.. Both stories complete their meaning when Iván projects on them his vital and intellectual vicissitudes in contemporary Cuba and his destructive relationship with the man who loved dogs.” –From publisher’s description.