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Dirty
Havana Trilogy
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Editor: Faber
and Faber Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Export edition (not for sale in the United Kingdom)
Published: February 04, 2002
Format: Paperback
Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer
Original title: Trilogía sucia de La Habana
Pages: 400
ISBN: 0571214231 |
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Other editions:
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.
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