by Natasha Wimmer (Translator), Natasha Wemmer (Translator), Pedro Juan Gutierrez (Author)
Pedro Juan was a reporter in Havana, but as existence in Cuba and his own life begin to collapse around him, he gives up the farce of a daily job, and begins to train himself to take nothing seriously. His training involves lots of sex, drugs, rum, jazz, beat literature and street philosophy.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: Main
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 02 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 0571206263
ISBN 13: 9780571206261
Book Overview: Dirty Havana Trilogy by Pedro Juan Gutierrez is a visceral picaresque, a damning portrait of vice and poverty, and an insane journey into the condemned soul of a sexual deviant.