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Author | : Pedro Juan Gutierrez |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2002-02-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0060006897 |
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 | : Carroll & Graf Pub |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780786714995 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : 9780571221615 |
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 | : Zoé Valdés |
Publisher | : Arcade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781559705417 |
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 | : Leonardo Padura |
Publisher | : Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1904738095 |
A young transvestite found strangled in a Havana park. The stifling death of a beloved Cuba.
Author | : Pedro Juan Gutierrez |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Cross-dressers |
ISBN | : 9780571230273 |
The eagerly anticipated new novel from the author of the bestselling Dirty Havana trilogy.
Author | : Stephen Hunter |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2011-07-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1451627246 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Cuba |
ISBN | : 9781841955414 |
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 | : Leonardo Padura |
Publisher | : Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-05-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1904738893 |
Scorching novel from a star of Cuban fiction. The return of Mario Conde.
Author | : Steve Fainaru |
Publisher | : Villard |
Total Pages | : 579 |
Release | : 2001-06-01 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 0375506691 |
In 1998, a mysterious right-handed pitcher emerged from the ashes of the Cold War and helped lead the New York Yankees to a World Championship. His origins and even his age were uncertain. His name was Orlando El Duque Hernandez. He was a fallen hero of Fidel Castro's socialist revolution. The chronicle of El Duque's triumph is at once a window into the slow death of Cuban socialism and one of the most remarkable sports stories of all time. Once hailed as a paragon of Castro's revolution, the finest pitcher in modern Cuban history was banned from baseball for life for allegedly plotting to defect. Instead of accepting his punishment, he fearlessly fought back, defying the Communist party authorities, vowing to pitch again, and ultimately fleeing his country in the bowels of a thirty-foot fishing boat. Here, for the first time and in astonishing detail, the secrets behind El Duque's persecution and escape are revealed. Moving from the crumbling streets of post Cold War Havana to the polarized world of exile Miami, from the deadly Florida Straits to the hallowed grounds of Yankee Stadium, it is a story of cloak-and-dagger adventure, audacious secret plots, the pull of big money, and the historic collision of ideologies. Present throughout are the larger-than-life characters who converged at this bizarre intersection of baseball and politics: El Duque himself, Fidel Castro, the Miami sports agent Joe Cubas, the late John Cardinal O'Connor along with scouts, smugglers, and the Cuban ballplayers who gave up their lives as tools of socialism to test the free market and chase their major-league dreams. Reported in the United States and Cuba by two award-winning journalists who became part of the story they were covering, The Duke of Havana is a riveting saga of sports, politics, liberation, and greed.