Leonardo Padura’s historical novel ‘The Man Who Loved Dogs’ brilliantly weaves together the lives of Leon Trotsky and his assassin Ramón Mercader, through the fictional character of Cuban writer Iván Maturell. This review by Alan Woods, written at the time of the book’s publication in English in 2014, touches upon some of the important political processes that are reflected in the story.

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