by Pedro Juan Gutierrez · Editorial Anagrama · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788433910981
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«El rey de la Habana» is the dirty realism novel by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, published by Editorial Anagrama in paperback (224 pages, in Spanish).
A teenager is thrown onto the streets of Havana in the 1990s and survives among beggars, prostitutes, transvestites, street vendors, rogues and drunks who eke out a living in an abandoned building. The novel portrays the misery and decay of the city during the crisis, with sex, love and tenderness as cracks of humanity.
Novel included in the Centro Havana series by Pedro Juan Gutiérrez. Volume 268 of Anagrama's Narrativas hispánicas collection.
For readers of contemporary Spanish-language fiction with an interest in Cuban literature and stories of survival in marginal contexts.
Juan Pedro Gutiérrez Lanas, commonly known as either Juampi Gutiérrez or J. P. Gutiérrez, is a former Argentine-Spanish professional basketball player. He played at the power forward and center positions.
