Leonardo Padura

"A sweeping novel of art theft, anti-Semitism, contemporary Cuba, and crime from a renowned Cuban author. In 1939, the Saint Louis sails from Hamburg into Havana's port with hundreds of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from the Nazi regime. From the docks, nine-year-old Daniel Kaminsky watches as the passengers, including his mother, father, and sister, become embroiled in a fiasco of Cuban corruption. But the Kaminskys have a treasure that they hope...

"From Leonardo Padura - whose crime novels featuring Detective Mario Conde form the basis of Netflix's Four Seasons in Havana - The Transparency of Time sees the Cuban investigator pursuing a mystery spanning centuries of occult history"--