The Man Who Loved Dogs

About “The Man Who Loved Dogs”

The Man Who Loved Dogs is a novel by Leonardo Padura involving the political narratives surrounding the assassination of Leon Trotsky by Ramon Mercader. It traces Trotsky's 11-year flight from Stalin, the recruitment of Mercader as his assassin, and the marginalization of Cuban novelist Ivan Cardenas Maturell. It was a finalist for the Book of the Year Award in Spain, originally published in 2009 by Tusquets Editors, and translated into English by Anna Kushner, published in the US in 2014 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)