Dirty Havana Trilogy
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

Editor: Faber and Faber Ltd, London, United Kingdom Published: March 19, 2001 (Faber Caribbean S.) Format: Paperback Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Original title: Trilogía sucia de La Habana Pages: 400 ISBN: 0571206212

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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.

   The title suggests a triptych: Marooned in no-man's-land, Nothing to do and Essence of me.

Read the stories       New things in my life       Memories of tenderness       Buried in Shit       Stars and Losers       Claustrophobic Me

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