| |
Dirty
Havana Trilogy: A novel in stories
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Other editions:
This picaresque novel
in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former
Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor
of contemporary Havana, half disgusted and half fascinated
by the depths to which he has sunk. Like the lives of so many
of his neighbours in the crumbling, once-elegant apartment
houses that line Havana’s waterfront, Pedro Juan’s
days and nights have been reduced by the so-called special
times –the harsh recession that followed the Soviet
Union’s collapse- to the struggle of surviving the daily
grit through the escapist pursuit of sex. Pedro Juan scrapes
by under the shadow oh hunger –all the while observing
his lovers and friends, strangers on the street, and their
suffering with an unsentimental, mocking, yet sympathetic
eye.
The
title suggests a triptych: Marooned in no-man's-land,
Nothing to do and Essence of me.
 |
Other
booksellers: Abebooks.com, Adlibris,
Alibris,
Amazon.com,
Amazon.ca,
Amazon.co.uk,
Amazon.co.jp,
Amazon.de,
Amazon.fr,
AnyBooks4Less,
Barnes
& Noble, Bokfynd.nu,
Bokpris.com,
Bokus
Bokhandel, Bol.ch, Book
Closeouts, Books-A-Million,
Bookchecker,
Buch.ch,
BuscaPé, Buy.com,
Campusi,
eBay.com,
Ecampus.com,
Fetch
Books, Growing
Lifestyle, HarperCollins.com,
Livraria
cultura, Hidea,
Internetbokhandeln.se,
JPC,
Noor
Nederlandcher Boekhandel, Powells.com,
Practical.org,
Real
Groovy, Univisión, Wal
Mart, Zap*. |
|
)
