Product Description

Este libro forma parte de la extraordinaria Trilogia sucia de La Habana, que supuso la consagracion instantanea del escritor, asi como su traduccion a muchos idiomas. Textos en primera persona, a modo de posible autobiografia fragmentada, contundentes e inolvidables.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1685552 in Books
• Published on: 2002-10-15
• Original language: Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 148 pages

Review
Este libro es, relato a relato, un acto de rebeldia. Representa tambien el triunfo de un placer que va mas alla de toda desesperacion sin negarla. --J.A. Masoliver Ródenas

About the Author
Pedro Juan Gutierrez (Cuba, 1950) fue vendedor de helados y perióoicos desde los once anos, soldado (zapador) durante casi cinco anos, instructor de natacion y kayaks, cortador de cana de azucar y obrero agricola de 1966 a 1970, tecnico en obras de construccion, dibujante tecnico, periodista y locutor de radio y TV, pintor, escultor y poeta visual. Premio Alfonso Garcia-Ramos de Novela 2000.

Customer Reviews

Cuban poverty
I read this book a few years ago and it is a quick and easy to read novel by PJG. Nada que hacer is a part of the series of novels that depict Cuba and his own life during the most difficult times that Cuba has faced since the collapse of the Soviet Union. The protagonist, Pedro Juan at forty-five is still struggling to survive in a day-to-day situation at best. Some days there's food and other days there is nothing but he always seems to find rum and a female companion. In this novel (which is series of episodes) we see a destitute man at forty plus who still enjoys the pleasures of women and alcohol but is frustrated, miserable and still clinging to the hopes of a better life. As the title indicates Pedro Juan is a man with no job prospects, hungry and barely has a place to live. Simply there's nothing to do. Nada que hacer is a reflection of lives of some of the most destitute in modern day Cuba.

The rating could easily be a three star or four star. It just depends on if you like Pedro Juan's style and how many of his novels about Cuba you are willing to read.