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Dirty Havana Trilogy

Pedro Juan Gutiรฉrrez`s Dirty Havana Trilogy tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascinated by his predicament. Working as a garbage-man, dealing on the black market, selling marijuana, and hustling lady tourists off the streets, Pedro Juan throws himself wholeheartedly into the pleasures of the flesh in his squalid surroundings: drink, sex and more sex. These novels are many things: visceral and unforgettably picaresque, a damning portrait of vice and poverty in a third-world country, and an insane journey into the condemned soul of a sexual deviant- the title itself is probably responsible for Pedro Juan Gutiรฉrrez’™s reputation as the master of ‘˜dirty realism’™. You can easily sense from reading the text that this is written by someone very close to the core of the material- Havana itself. Living in Havana, Gutiรฉrrez began to work selling ice cream and newspapers when he was eleven years old; he was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technical designer, radio speaker and journalist for 26 years. Not only this, but nowadays he is a painter, sculptor and author of several poetry books. Gutiรฉrrez depicts life in the shady alleys of Havana with his unadorned style- without taking any political stance, his books describe contemporary Cuba in an unembellished way, and his life most certainly informs this style.

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