Uruguayan novelist and classics professor Chavarria turns from his
scholarly studies of the origins of prostitution to a contemporary
lab in his translation-into-English debut, the cat-and-mouse tale
of a bicycle whore in post-Soviet Havana. If there's one thing
Alicia wants, it's not to be poor. So when Gorbachev turns a cold
shoulder on his North American comrades, putting an end to her
studies at the university, she makes a careful assessment of her
assets-golden-blond hair, perky breasts, irresistible behind-then
puts them on careful display on a secondhand bike. Her lovingly
detailed technique is so foolproof that soon the house that she
shares with her mother, Margarita, is filled to bursting with gifts
from her new friends (the two ladies are too proud and independent
to accept cash). Alicia, in fact, never takes money with her and
never eats anywhere but home-until she meets Victor King, trade
representative for a firm of Dutch treasure hunters who talks like
Pancho Villa and looks like Mel Gibson. He's so handsome that
Alicia agrees to have dinner at his elegantly furnished home, where
she and he have every kind of sex Chavarria hasn't already
catalogued. Alicia thinks she's got it made; she'll become mistress
to this gorgeous hunk and never have to pedal the streets of Havana
again-except that King wants her not for himself but for his wife,
Elizabeth, who can only become aroused when she watches others. So
Alicia agrees to put on well-paid shows for Victor and Elizabeth,
copulating enthusiastically with a variety of men and the
occasional knickknack-until King ups the ante once again, involving
her in a kidnap plot that will either make her rich or ruin her. A
one-of-a-kind sport that's too torrid to satisfy as a thriller and
too cockamamie to be erotic. (Kirkus Reviews)
Fiction. Latin/Latina Studies. In Havana, Cuba, a beautiful young
woman rides a bicycle through the city streets to lure men in to
her services. Desperate to escape her dead-end life in a city
plagued with scarcity, the luscious bicyclist designs a
get-rich-quick scheme with a gorgeous John from Canada. A web of
deception is weaved and then disastrously unraveled. Daniel
Chavarra has long been recognized as one of Latin America's finest
writers. Now he again proves why with ADIOS MUCHACHOS, a comic
mystery peopled by a delightfully mad band of miscreants, all of
them led by a woman you will not soon forget Alicia, the loveliest
bicycle whore in all Havana.
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