The Dirty Trilogy of Havana - Couverture souple

Gutierrez, Pedro Juan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571206212 ISBN 13 : 9780571206216

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2001

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

'Grotesquely compelling... Pedro Juan Gutierrez appears destined to become a cult writer.' --Times Literary Supplement

'A tale of human ingenuity and hidden hopefulness overcoming near-insuperable odds.' --Guardian

'One of the sexiest books I have read in a long time.' --David Profumo, Literary Review

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0571206212
• ISBN 13: 9780571206216
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352