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.

The beautiful Allcia hatches a plot to ensnare the wealthy foreign visitors to Castro's Cuba through an elaborate scam involving a broken bicycle and her voluptuous charms. Taking choreographed spills in front of expensive foreign cars, Allcia squeezes the maximum sympathy and cash out of her clueless, sexually aroused, victims. Add to this mix the guile of her mother who is in on the scam, and the sky's the limit for Allcia. However, when she attempts to trap Victor, a convicted bank robber masquerading as a Canadian businessman, they quickly realise each other's nefarious motives and embark on a misadventure of sex, cross-dressing, kidnapping and death by olive. Adios Muchachos is an erotic, brutally funny romp through the underworld of post-revolutionary Cuba.

Fiction. Latino Studies. Mystery. Equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica, and philosophical discourse, this novel, set in the fifth century B.C., recreates the behind-the-scenes scandals and political intrigues that occupied the Athenian home front at the height of the Peloponnesian War. Praised by Publishers Weekly as "devilishly charming," THE EYE OF CYBELE was a finalist for both an Anthony Award and a 2004 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Winner of the Edgar Award, the Uruguayan-born Chavarria intrigues readers in a second novel that the Library Journal, deems "impossible to put down."