Author: Pedro Juan Gutierrez
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060006897
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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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.
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN:
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Pedro Juan used to be a reporter in Havana, but as life 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.
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub
ISBN: 9780786714995
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A Cuban artist finds his options increasing even as he remains holed up in his crumbling Havana abode, pursued by a proud prostitute who seems bent on taming him and offered an opportunity to travel to Sweden to pursue a creative life in Europe. By the author of Dirty Havana Trilogy.
Author: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571221615
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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Pedro Juan Gutieacute;rrez's bestselling novel, Dirty Havana Trilogy, was hugely acclaimed for its honest depiction of a Cuban capital characterized by sleaze, sex, poverty and hedonism. In The Insatiable Spider Man we see the return of its anti-hero, who is again prowling the streets of Havana. Pedro Juan's relationship with his wife, Julia, is in terminal decline. He can no longer bear kissing her on the mouth and the trappings of domestic bliss hold no charms for this most restless and predatory of men. Our narrator's interests lie elsewhere: in the infinite possibilities of a chaotic Caribbean city and many chancers, artists and prostitutes who roam the streets in search of fresh experience. Pedro Juan Gutieacute;rrez again takes the reader on a journey into the underbelly of contemporary Havana - a world of easy sex, hard drinking and humorous anecdotes, that will be all too recognizable to the Gutieacute;rrez connoisseur.
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 1904738095
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author: Noel Hynd
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 0310413222
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 443
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From bestselling ABA author Noel Hynd comes this new series set against the backdrop of Havana, an explosive capital city of faded charm locked in the past and torn by political intrigue. U.S. Treasury Agent Alexandra LaDuca leaves her Manhattan home on an illegal mission to Cuba that could cost her everything. Accompanying her is the attractive but dangerous Paul Guarneri, a Cuban-born exile who lives in the gray areas of the law. Together, they plunge into subterfuge and danger. Without the support of the United States, Alex must navigate Cuban police, saboteurs, pro-Castro security forces, and an assassin who follows her from New York. Bullets fly as allies become traitors and enemies become unexpected friends. Alex, recovering from the tragic loss of her fiancé a year before, reexamines faith and new love while taking readers on a fast-paced adventure. Readers of general market thrillers, such as John le Carré, David Baldacci, and Joel Rosenberg, will eagerly anticipate this first installment.
Author: Zoé Valdés
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
ISBN: 9781559705417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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An audacious, exuberant novel that follows Cuca Martinez from childhood to motherhood in Cuba, where she fights to survive & be happy in a world on which fortune has consistently failed to smile.
Author: Stephen Hunter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451627246
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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It is 1953 and Cuba is at its lush and glamorous best. However, the rise of a daring revolutionary named Fidel Castro threatens this tropical paradise. Legendary sniper Earl Swagger is called in by the CIA to take Castro out. Now available in a tall Premium Edition. Reissue.
Author: Leonardo Padura
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 9781841955414
Category : Cuba
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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In a detective story set against the backdrop of Hemingway's Cuba, the discovery of the skeletal remains of the victim of a forty-year-old murder on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, draws ex-cop Mario Conte back into the game to investigate a crime with roots in Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier.
Author: James Ellroy
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448108586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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DALLAS, NOVEMBER 22ND, 1963. Wayne Tedrow Jr has arrived to kill a man. The fee is $6,000. He finds himself instead in the middle of the cover-up following JFK's assassination. There follows a hellish five-year ride through the sordid underbelly of public policy via Las Vegas, Howard Hughes, Vietnam, CIA dope dealing, Cuba, sleazy showbiz, racism and the Klan. This is the 1960s under Ellroy's blistering lens, the icons of the era mingled with cops, killers, hoods, and provocateurs. The Cold Six Thousand is historical confluence as American nightmare. Fierce, epic fiction. A masterpiece.
