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Dirty Havana Trilogy (Paperback)

by Pedro Juan Gutierrez (Author), Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (2 Jan 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571206263
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571206261
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.6 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 53,578 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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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.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars astounding, 6 Oct 2004
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.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A page-turning treat, 7 Jan 2004
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.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Real life in Havana, 3 Aug 2006
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%
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 8 months ago by Cecily

5.0 out of 5 stars 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 10 months ago by Finch

5.0 out of 5 stars Dionysian revelry annoys the new puritans
I read the other reviews and sighed a long drawn out groan. How can they massacre this masterpiece??? Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars 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 Crest of a Wave

1.0 out of 5 stars 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
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4.0 out of 5 stars grotesque yet compelling
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5.0 out of 5 stars Refreshing & compelling
A fantastically gritty portrait of Cuban life, told anecdotally through the eyes of Pedro Juan Gutierrez. Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2003 by Ollie Wilkinson

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Thought provoking, enthralling. A window on the world of a vibrant city. The writer describes so passionately the beauty that can be found in places that superficially may be seen... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Dirty Planet - the Cuba traveler's other guide
After reading this book, a normal person would throw away his plans to ever visit Cuba.
Fortunately, I am not a normal person and I've already bought my Lonely Planet and plan... Read more
Published on 23 April 2003 by L.A. van Gelder

4.0 out of 5 stars Flawed piece with some remarkable writing
When I first started reading this remarkable book, I was blown away. The writing is fresh and honest, combining a seedy physical background with some genuinely interesting... Read more
Published on 12 Sep 2002 by Arthur

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