“The Man Who Loved Dogs,” published in Spanish in 2009 and now appearing in an English translation by Anna Kushner, tells the story of the exile of Leon Trotsky, founder of the Red Army and the Soviet people’s commissar for foreign affairs, who was assassinated in Mexico on Aug. 20, 1940. Its Russian quality comes not only from its length — almost 600 pages — and the fact that it returns constantly to Moscow, but also from its Tolstoyan passion for historical trifles and Dostoyevskyan pleasure in examining the moral life of its characters.
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