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Dirty Havana Trilogy: A Novel in Stories Paperback - 2002

by Pedro Juan Gutierrez

"Dirty Havana Trilogy" chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living hand to mouth in and around Cuba, half disgusted and half fascinated by the depths to which he has sunk. Pedro Juan's unsentimental yet sympathetic eye captures a shocking underbelly of today's Cuba. Banned in Cuba, Gutierrez's picaresque novel is a fierce, loving tribute to Havana and the defiant, desperate way of life that flourishes amid its decay.


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Early that morning, there was a pink postcard sticking out of my mailbox, from Mark Pawson in London.

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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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  • Title Dirty Havana Trilogy: A Novel in Stories
  • Author Pedro Juan Gutierrez
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition (4th)
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ecco Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-02-05
  • ISBN 9780060006891 / 0060006897
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.46 x 0.98 in (20.37 x 13.87 x 2.49 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Havana (Cuba), Journalists - Cuba - Havana
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001040807
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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  • New York Times, 02/10/2002, Page 24
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