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'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
'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
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"Grotesquely compelling...Pedro Juan Gutierrez appears destined to become a cult writer.' TLS '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
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From the first page this book sucks you in to a whirlpool of sleaze and depravity that leaves you reeling. It is a tale consisting entirely of stolen moments and passing encounters, reading like a modern On The Road and planting the reader firmly in the tropical poverty stricken centre of Cuba, complete with all the sights, smells and sounds of a struggling third world capital city.
I found this book absolutely exhilarating and would recommend it to anyone interested in the human effects of poverty. Although it is at times coarse and some may consider it vulgar this is exactly where its strength lies, in its ability to completely humanize the effects of social and economic phenomena that we all know about, taking them out of an intellectual and even ethical/moral context and placing them starkly in the realms of experience.
It is inspiring, beautifully written and impossible to put down.
I found this book absolutely exhilarating and would recommend it to anyone interested in the human effects of poverty. Although it is at times coarse and some may consider it vulgar this is exactly where its strength lies, in its ability to completely humanize the effects of social and economic phenomena that we all know about, taking them out of an intellectual and even ethical/moral context and placing them starkly in the realms of experience.
It is inspiring, beautifully written and impossible to put down.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
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Compiled in short, unrelated, single-subject chapter form Guiterrez's book of his life on and around the streets of Cuba is as compelling and engrossing a book as I've read in a long time. He documents the mini-adventures and everyday people he undertakes them with with a frank emotion and colourful prose that I've not read since Orwell, and found just as attractive and personal. There are no punches pulled in the subject matter either which, considering the social, political and economic climates of Cuba throughout the early 90's, means that you are bombarded with everything from poverty, rape, murder, disease and despair, but Guiterrez infuses everything with such humour and compassion, and illustrates the people and places with such a vitality that all the horrors of the effects of Castro's regime and the USA's embargo's are absorbed into the everyday. A truly excellent portrayal of an extraordinary time and place.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I lived in Havana from 1993 to 2000, I was a freelance press photographer. This book reminds so much of that time. Of course the book deals with Havana's low life.... .
No book I have ever read captures the spirit of Cuban street life as this one does.
Reccomended 100%
No book I have ever read captures the spirit of Cuban street life as this one does.
Reccomended 100%
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not worth the price, at any cost.
In over 40 years of reading of novels this is one of the worst I have ever started. I stuck with it until about page 60 before giving up. Read more
Published 1 month ago by a3minutewonder
Shocking, but the best book I've ever read
This really is something special and I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
It's a gritty account of the effects of poverty and predominantly the author's... Read more
It's a gritty account of the effects of poverty and predominantly the author's... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Cuban Music Fan
Brilliant but (and) dirty
This is a really enjoyable collection of short stories but not for everyone - they are really dirty! Read more
Published 12 months ago by MichaelR
Dirty Havana Trilogy
I bought this book as part of our 'book club'
80 pages in I gave up and I think that was a credit to me as most of our group gave up alot sooner! Read more
80 pages in I gave up and I think that was a credit to me as most of our group gave up alot sooner! Read more
Published 18 months ago by Heidi
Get down and dirty.
One of the most enjoyable books I've ever read. It's a collection of short semi-autobiographical stories about life in Havana in the 90'. Lots of sex, rum and more sex. Read more
Published 23 months ago by Jamrock
Dirty Havana Trilogy
For me the most pornographic book I have ever read but also great insight into life in old Havana in the late 1990s. Especially interesting as we were visiting Cuba.
Published on 17 Mar 2009 by Cecily
Evocative and truthful
I lived in Cuba for a year in the mid 90's doing voluntary work. This is the only thing i've ever read that truly captures the squalor and desparation of daily life for many... Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2009 by Finch
Smell the Sewers
Perhaps there are more than two worlds running side by side.
One is a big house surrounded by a white picket fence with a clipped lawn, high powered sprinklers, flowers... Read more
One is a big house surrounded by a white picket fence with a clipped lawn, high powered sprinklers, flowers... Read more
Published on 2 July 2007 by Dr. Delvis Memphistopheles
all kinds of provocative
This is a book about humanity reduced to its raw materials - lust, greed, deceit, cruelty, but also respect, love, endeavour, sympathy. Read more
Published on 28 May 2006 by Jo
The worst book I've ever read?
I can't convey what a poor book this is - while it does convey something of the Cuban reality (without any sense of the determining context of US economic blockade and relentless... Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2006
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