Daniel Chavarria
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Adios Muchachos
Translated by Carlos Lopez
The beautiful Alicia hatches a plot to ensnare the wealthy foreign visitors to Castro’s Cuba with an elaborate scam involving a broken bicycle and her voluptuous charms. Taking choreographed spills in front of expensive foreign cars, Alicia squeezes the maximum sympathy and cash out of her clueless, yet sexually aroused, victims. However, when she attempts to trap Victor, a convicted bank robber masquerading as a Canadian businessman, they quickly realise each other’s nefarious motives and embark on a misadventure of sex, cross-dressing, kidnapping and death by olive.
Adios Muchachos is a dark, erotic, brutally funny romp through the underworld of post-revolutionary Cuba. It is the first English translation of a brilliant new voice in Latin American fiction.
A Paperback Original
`Pulp fiction in Castro’s Cuba. A picaresque novel with sex, scheming, and, well, more sex’ ‘Martin Cruz Smith
`Out of the mystery wrapped in an enigma that, over the last forty years, has been Cuba for the U.S., comes a Uruguayan voice so cheerful, a face so laughing, and a mind so deviously optimistic ...Welcome, Daniel Chavarria’ Donald Westlake
`If for no other reason than Daniel Chavarria and his novels of money, sex, and crime in Havana, the U.S. embargo against Cuba must end forthwith’ Thomas Adcock
About The Author
Daniel Chavarria is a Uruguayan writer. His novels, short stories, literary journalism, and screenplays have reached audiences across Latin America and Europe. Chavarria has won numerous literary awards around the world, including a 1992 Dashiell Hammett Award. For years, he was a professor of Latin, Greek, and Classical literature, devoting much of his time and energy to researching the origins and evolution of prostitution. Adios Muchachos is Chavarria’s first novel in English translation.
Bibliography
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Adios Muchachos
(Serpents Tail Pbk,
2003)
Adios Muchachos
by Daniel Chavarria
