Adios Muchachos

8vo. Pp. 245, [1 (blank)]. Pictorial wraps.

Author's first novel to be translated into English. Winner of the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award for best Paperback Original. A luscious Habañera in scarcity-plagued post-revolutionary Cuba, takes choreographed spills off her "broken" bicycle in an elaborate scam to ensnare visiting businessmen in expensive foreign cars. An erotic, brutally funny romp through the nefarious underworld of post-revolutionary Cuba. By the Havana-based, Uruguayan writer whose twin passions comprise – according to his US publisher – classical literature and prostitutes. "Pulp fiction in Castro's Cuba. A picaresque novel with sex, scheming, and, well, more sex." –Martin Cruz Smith