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Title: Dirty Havana Trilogy : A Novel in Stories by Pedro Juan Gutierrez ISBN: 0-06-000689-7 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (22 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Griity look at modern Cuba
Comment: Following the collapse of the silver spoon better known as the Soviet Union, Castro decided to "reform" the Cuban economy in the early nineties. However, the slight change in what a local can own and sell has little effect on the disenfranchised intellectual community.
As an idealistic youth, Pedro Juan expected to become a great writer, but by early 1993, he can no longer deal with journalist reports that treat everyone as if they are morons. He quits his day job and becomes a Communist entrepreneur selling anything and everything including his body. At time he crosses the economic legal line and lands in jail. As he becomes more depravingly self-centered, Pedro Juan seeks wine, women, and weed with no hope for more than a bleak decaying future even with the beautiful Caribbean just outside his reach.
DIRTY HAVANA TRILOGY is a gritty, at times deliberately written in poor taste, series of grimy vignettes loosely tied together through the main character. The story line is not for the faint of heart as Pedro Juan Gutierrez paints a grim, gray look at modern Cuban society. Readers will loathe and sympathize over the downward spiral of the antihero, who compensates from a lack of mental activities with many me-me physical pursuits. Bluntly, Pedro Juan is a racist, sexist person, who deserves no empathy, yet manages to garner plenty from the audience. This novel is quite graphic sexually. It is also a no holds look at a decaying society that Pedro Juan symbolizes in every way possible, spiraling into depravity. This well-written quasi-autobiography will either bring adoring fans to the author or condemnation for bad taste without counting how Fidel will react.
Harriet Klausner
Rating: 5
Summary: Dirty Havana Trilogy
Comment: I came across this book while vacationing down in Mexico. An excellent read if you prefer a sparse, terse style of a gritty subject matter. NOT for the faint of heart, nor for politically correct bores.
"Dirty Havana Trilogy" is a series of short chapters, vignettes, of daily life in Havana during the harsh mid-90s. If you have been to Cuba, or are planning on visiting, then read this book.
When conditions become so harsh as to drive a population to harsh measures, they will be taken. The alternative is slow starvation and death. With this as a backdrop, read Pedro Juan Gutierrez's book with great empathy. The graphic descriptions of sex and rum and cigars lift the crushing weight of a painful, meager daily existence.
I found myself reading a chapter or two aloud to a table of friends. Inevitably, some were put off, but many more gathered around, wanting to hear more. Many times, we were all doubled over with laughter. Try it and see for yourself.
I read the book straight through from cover to cover. I highly recommend this book to anyone with an interest outside of the United States.
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Rating: 5
Summary: A True Novel
Comment: No way Pedro could have made up all of these stories! I feel that this book has been deemed a novel simply because the identities of the Cuban involved have been protected.
I barely put this book down. I am surprised that Pedro still lives in Cuba after revealing so much about the troubled country. Even though the author turned many readers off with his sloppy sex scenes, racist comments, and general ragamuffin attitude, I was riveted. I can only hope that after writing the book and making some money, Pedro will no longer live off a staple of cigars and rum.
I am about to order a copy to send to my buddy who is stationed in Guantanamo Bay. I refuse to give up my copy. I am sure that I will read it again. Too bad it doesn't come with a map.
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Title: Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana by Ann Louise Bardach ISBN: 0375504893 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Lonely Planet Cuba (Lonely Planet Cuba) by David Stanley ISBN: 0864427506 Publisher: Lonely Planet Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Fidel: : A Critical Portrait by Tad Szulc ISBN: 0380808889 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Streetwise Cuba by Streetwise Maps ISBN: 1886705445 Publisher: Streetwise Maps Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Reader's Companion to Cuba by Alan Ryan, Christa Malone ISBN: 0156003678 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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