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Original Title:	Trilogía sucia de La Habana
ISBN:	0060006897 (ISBN13: 9780060006891)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Havana(Cuba)

Dirty Havana Trilogy

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

Paperback | Pages: 392 pages

Rating: 3.76 | 3270 Users | 305 Reviews

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Title	:	Dirty Havana Trilogy
Author	:	Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 392 pages
Published	:	February 5th 2002 by Ecco (first published 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction

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For the last four decades, Fidel Castro's communist Cuba has survived a harsh economic blockade. In 1993, Castro attempted economic reform by allowing Cubans to use U.S. dollars and begin their own business ventures—"a huge messy free-for-all." This time of confused, low-rent capitalism is the backdrop for Pedro Juan Gutierrez's gritty, powerful, and atmospheric novel-in-stories, Dirty Havana Trilogy, translated from the original Spanish version by Natasha Wimmer. Gutierrez, whose prose sings of grime and simple, hard-clay truths, much like the words of Junot Díaz, is a well-known member of the Latin American visual poetry movement and a magazine journalist living in Havana. Dirty Havana Trilogy is written from the semiautobiographical point of view of Pedro Juan, a 40-year-old sex-starved ex-radio journalist cobbling together an existence by selling everything from himself to drugs to whatever he can get his hands on. "Everything's worth something here," he writes. Pedro Juan is an ex-radio journalist because in a "model" communist society nothing bad is acceptable news. Through his tormented lead character, Gutierrez provides a window into his reasons for writing such a crude book. "That's why I was disillusioned with journalism and why I started to write raw stories.... I write to jar people a little and force others to wake up and smell the shit.... That's how I terrorize cowards and mess with people who like to muzzle those of us who speak up.... My stories could run bare-assed out into the middle of the street, shouting, 'Freedom, freedom, freedom.'" That said, be warned: Dirty Havana Trilogy is not for the faint of heart. It is raw, squarely confronting poverty, racism, violence, prostitution, and the lengths Cubans go to in order to secure the almighty buck. In one story, the man who lives across the hall from Pedro Juan, in the crumbling apartment building that serves as the focal point for much of the book, is busted by the cops for stealing human livers from the morgue and selling them on the streets as pork livers. But survival isn't the only thing on the minds of Gutierrez's colorful characters. Oddly enough, it's the quest for release, for fits of pleasure, for some sliver of happiness no matter how warped the avenue may seem to the world outside Havana. And that quest is manifested in the hard-core sex that permeates the pages of the book. An orgasm is one of the few pleasures no one can be denied. As violent and nauseating as the sex -- and the life -- may seem on the surface, Gutierrez achieves the difficult task of lifting his characters from the muck, giving his Dirty Havana Trilogy an intellectual and emotional depth that far outweighs the carnal. Near the end Gutierrez writes, "Born in the ruins, they just kept trying not to give up or let themselves be beaten so severely that at last they were forced to surrender. Anything was possible, everything allowed, except defeat." The book then becomes a manifesto, a well-wrought fight against literary persecution, a release the same as an orgasm, where the truth behind every dark corner, behind every door, must be told. Dirty Havana Trilogy comes from the same womb in which literature was born, a book that just may someday be held up beside those of the mighty dead. Nelson Taylor is a freelance writer and author of the travel guide America Bizarro, published by St. Martin's Press.

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Loving it so far, very Hunter S Thompsonish (Death in Vegas) but with a Cuban feel. Set in the early 90's in Havana. Raw and savage and poetic. It's a trilogy, the first section is much better and declines in the later 2 sections. In the last section each chapter's focus is on a different character - people the main character has met. They also function as stand alone short character pieces. I was disappointed that by the end of the book it's main thrust (pardon the pun) was the central

"Cities, like dreams are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perceptions deceitful, and everything conceals something else" Italo Clavino, Invisible Cities***Just a word of warning there will be mature content in this review due to the explicit content of this novel.***This novel is a series of short vignettes that are roughly in chronological order. The book is raw, focusing on the poorest of the poor of Havana. It is 1993

Were down-and-out in Havana during the economic crisis of the early 1990s when people appear with buckets to ask for slices of meat off of a dead horse. The political situation has changed to the point where police come by to see rafters off and wish them good luck on their dangerous trip to Florida. We follow the main character, a man in his early 40s -- he constantly reminds us how old he is. He used to be a journalist who traveled in Europe with a former artist wife but hes ended up divorced,

I write to jar people a little and force others to wake up and smell the shit.Last week I discovered the Cuban Severo Sarduy, who wrote as therapy declaring language, the desire to give life to things through words, is what makes us human. This week my new Cuban journey is via Pedro Juan Gutierrez and his world that smells like shit. One countrytwo extremes.Pedro Juans Dirty Havana Trilogy is not for the faint hearted, or the prudes of world literature. A book that delves into the filth of

A peephole into the dank, perverse and at most times depressing lives of mid-nineties Havana slum dwellers. Makes Bukowski read like Beatrix Potter. Enthralling.

I'm . . . not quite sure how I feel about this book. From what I can gather it's a semi-fictional autobiography of the author himself, who used to be a journalist in Cuba. The Havana in this book is not the pretty, sunny, exotic Havana I remember from the documentary _Havana Libre_. It's filthy, sweaty, cut-throat, and depressing. People fucking in alleys filled with garbage and cockroaches. Sleeping on the floor next to the cockroaches. Drinking cheap rum and eating mangoes someone else vomited

I found Pedro Juan Gutierrez's novel "Dirty Havana Trilogy" so disappointing. This semi-autobiographical novel is about those who are down and out, living in poverty in Cuba in the 1990's. Such a great and interesting premise but it was hard to take the book particularly seriously since every single one of the loosely connected vignettes really becomes a detailing of Pedro Juan's sexcapades. The book is incredibly raunchy and in an unbelievable way -- (I don't know any women personally who will