Dirty Havana Trilogy (Paperback, Main)

Fidel Castro is reputed to have turned apoplectic on having this novel brought to his attention by Cubas thought police. One can understand why. This is not the Cuba he would wish the world to read about. Rather than a land of proletarian bliss and wholesomeness, it is hell on earth. Guti?rrez has written a semi-autobiographical work that exposes what he claims is the pit of vice and poverty into which Cuba has sunk under Castro. Havana, the capital, is portrayed as a city seething in sleaze and moral squalor, where perversion is rampant and brainwashing is routine. And we see it all through the eyes of a sexual degenerate with a penchant for booze. The sexual images are graphic, the characters behaviour stunningly warped. The protagonist, Pedro Juan (it is surely no accident that these are Guti?rrezs own forenames) lurches from one odd job to another, full of loathing for himself and the sordid mess he has become. His sole thoughts are of survival and sex. He throws himself wholeheartedly into both, while encountering along the way a myriad misfits whom we are asked by inference to believe form the bedrock of Havana society today. Guti?rrez's unpolished style is well suited to his squalid tale. This is a bitter and humorous account of a self-absorbed and sex-crazed obsessive wandering through the wreckage of a broken society. (Kirkus UK)

Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascinated by his predicament. Working as a garbage-man, dealing on the black market, selling marijuana, and hustling lady tourists off the streets, Pedro Juan throws himself wholeheartedly into the pleasures of the flesh in his squalid surroundings: drink, sex and more sex. A visceral and unforgettable picaresque, a damning portrait of vice and poverty, and an insane journey into the condemned soul of a sexual deviant, Dirty Havana Trilogy is a Tropic of Cancer for these times.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2002
Authors:	Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Translators:	Natasha Wemmer
Dimensions:	198 x 126 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	392
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-20626-1
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-571-20626-3
Barcode:	9780571206261

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