Written by Pedro Juan Gutierrez, the book’s protagonist, during the euphemistically dubbed “Special Period” of the 1990s (when Cuba was on its knees as subsidies from the former Soviet Union dried up) this book examines the underbelly of Cuban society in unforgiving language. Sex, poverty, racism and dog-eat-dog squalor – this is a side of Havana you won’t get from the guidebooks. A tour de force.

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