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Dirty Havana trilogy / Pedro Juan Gutiérrez ; translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

By:

Gutierrez, Pedro Juan, , 1950-

Contributor(s):

Wimmer, Natasha

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2001.Edition: 1st American edDescription: 392 p. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780060006891

Uniform titles:

Trilogía sucia de La Habana . English

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Erotic fiction

DDC classification:

LAS FIC GUT

LOC classification:

PQ7390.G83 T7513 2001

Summary: Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, 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 neighbors 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 of hunger -- all the while observing his lovers and friends, strangers on the street, and their suffering with an unsentimental, mocking, yet sympathetic eye.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS FIC GUT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016317

Originally published in 1998 by Editorial Anagrama, Spain, as Trilogía sucia de La Habana.

Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, 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 neighbors 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 of hunger -- all the while observing his lovers and friends, strangers on the street, and their suffering with an unsentimental, mocking, yet sympathetic eye.

Translated from the Spanish to English.

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