Dirty Havana Trilogy (Pedro Juan Gutierrez)

Sex. About 75% of this novel is sex. Not passionate love-making sex, but dirty, vulgar, abusive, find-the-nearest-warm-body sex.

In Gutierrez's version of Cuba during the 1990's, there is no room for love, or cleanliness, or human goodness. There is only filth and poverty.

Dirty Havana Trilogy, which was originally published in Spanish in 1996,  is referred to as the anti-communist manifesto. Gutierrez shows us the corruption, the black markets, the unemployment, the poverty, the hopelessness, and ration lines of Cuba in the 90's.

As a work of literature, it's a fascinating piece. I enjoyed it, but it did seem to drag on and on after a while. It was worth the read, but it's not something I would pick up and read again.