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|title=The Man Who Loved Dogs

|sort=Man Who Loved Dogs, The

|publisher=Bitter Lemon Press

|date=December 2014

|summary=A seriously weighty tome, Padura has written a sweeping, Tolstoy-like epic that centres around the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Whilst it does educate, it still manages to entertain, and tells the three arcing stories that tie together in dramatic fashion.

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In Cuba, a mysterious man walks on the beach, always with two Russian wolfhounds. Watched by a writer, he soon comes to share his story, and it becomes clear that he is Ramon Mercader - the man who killed Trotsky.