LIFE IS BROADER THAN LIFE HISTORIA.Esa initial quote is not mine, not even the author of this novel. Puska, not because it has 760 pages long, but because the word that the author has created will hit you “hard”. History is a novel, the story of “our”, an exciting fiction of the history of the 20th century. There are two main characters: Léon Trotsky and Ramón Mercader. If you've walked in the grooves of the revolutions of the past, you already know the intricacies of those two people. In any case, you have the opportunity to know the Soviet Union and the contemporary history of Cuba, it reflects the spirit of human history.

Leonardo Padura’s work requires and appreciates a continuous reading of the holiday period. You will snore for the man who loved the dogs and for the man who persecutes him. Although paraxadic, the latter is not an CIA agent. Of course not! Moreover, Trotsky is not the only person behind him, as there is also Iosif Stalin. Nothing! Oops! Two giants and a poor man of history: Ramón Mercader. You're going to smell the most miserable human misery.

The storyteller is a frustrated writer, also the protagonist of the extraordinary. There are countless reasons why people feel frustrated, both personal and collective, despicable to each other, of great value to all. It is a resentful account of those who want to “change or correct” the course of history. There is, however, how to smooth the flow: the dead, in the name of our rights and justice, thinking that they are laughing at their grave, have for once found their rest, believing that death is broader than life.