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This Edgar Award–winning crime novel offers “pulp fiction in Castro’s Cuba” (Martin Cruz Smith, author The Girl from Venice). Alicia is a smart, confident, and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a streetwalker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking resemblance to movie star Alain Delon. This is no ordinary john, and as Alicia’s feelings for him grow, she sees in their relationship the possibility of escape from her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity. So when King’s wealthy and sexually deviant boss is suddenly killed, Alicia and John hatch a get-rich-quick scheme. A web of deception is woven—but it will be quickly and disastrously unraveled, and only one person will be able to say adiós to the dilapidated island of Cuba . . . “Fun, fast, and intelligent . . . A madcap caper full of twisted sex, devious schemes and high-rolling hijinks . . . Will leave readers clamoring for more.” —Publishers Weekly “The book’s cynical take on ambition and greed is tempered by humor and humanity.” —The New York Times “Impossible to put down. This is a great read.” —Library Journal

Whores, politics, and history tangle in Havana in the new novel from the author of Edgar Award-winning Adios Muchachos.

Paperback reissue of the Ancient-Greek thriller nominated for an Anthony Award and a 2004 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Eye of Cybele is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in the fifth century B.C. - during the reign of Pericles - the novel fictionally recreates the behind-the-scenes scandals and political intrigues that occupied the Athenian home front at the height of the Peloponessian War.

"A Pike in Flanders" is a novel enriched by a catchy suspense plot with comic and even erotic touches. More relevantly, we find on each of its pages a message of denunciation and condemnation of the national and world policies the United States have engendered. Making use of three main characters, this detective story shouts at the top of its lungs that we need to attempt to fix the world we are living in.

This Edgar Award–winning crime novel offers “pulp fiction in Castro’s Cuba” (Martin Cruz Smith, author The Girl from Venice). Alicia is a smart, confident, and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a streetwalker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her fine derrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking resemblance to movie star Alain Delon. This is no ordinary john, and as Alicia’s feelings for him grow, she sees in their relationship the possibility of escape from her dead-end life in a city plagued with scarcity. So when King’s wealthy and sexually deviant boss is suddenly killed, Alicia and John hatch a get-rich-quick scheme. A web of deception is woven—but it will be quickly and disastrously unraveled, and only one person will be able to say adiós to the dilapidated island of Cuba . . . “Fun, fast, and intelligent . . . A madcap caper full of twisted sex, devious schemes and high-rolling hijinks . . . Will leave readers clamoring for more.” —Publishers Weekly “The book’s cynical take on ambition and greed is tempered by humor and humanity.” —The New York Times “Impossible to put down. This is a great read.” —Library Journal

"A Pike in Flanders" is a novel enriched by a catchy suspense plot with comic and even erotic touches. More relevantly, we find on each of its pages a message of denunciation and condemnation of the national and world policies the United States have engendered. Making use of three main characters, this detective story shouts at the top of its lungs that we need to attempt to fix the world we are living in.

"That Year in Madrid...", ideal for a transatlantic flight, is inspired by a real story. Moving along at the pace of a thriller, the novel is filled with humor and literary virtuosity, rendering an almost detective-like plot with twist and an ending that will surprise even de most astute readers.

Paperback reissue of the Ancient-Greek thriller nominated for an Anthony Award and a 2004 IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. The Eye of Cybele is equal parts historical epic, whodunnit-style thriller, highbrow erotica and philosophical discourse. Set in the fifth century B.C. - during the reign of Pericles - the novel fictionally recreates the behind-the-scenes scandals and political intrigues that occupied the Athenian home front at the height of the Peloponessian War.

La autobiografía de Daniel Chavarría, el prolífico escritor uruguayo de profunda impronta cubana que en este libro presenta, para nuestro extremo deleite, la narración de su propia vida. Sus memorias son el relato más entretenido, sabio y desopilante que pueda llegar a nuestras manos. Un chiquilín de rica historia familiar; un joven a quien le costó completar sus estudios secundarios, postergó los universitarios, pero se formó con lo recogido de variopintos personajes que se le cruzaron por todas partes. Que fue consolidando una gran erudic ión con sus múltiples lecturas, también en otras lenguas. Se ganó la vida vendiendo libros puerta por puerta; fue obrero en la ind ustria pesada alemana, guía de arte en el Museo del Prado, buscador de oro en los yacimientos de la región amazónica, traductor e intérprete en Europa y América, hasta su culminación profesional como docente universitario en Cuba. El aventurero que enamoró y se dejó seducir por las mujeres más diversas hasta finalmente reposar en un sentimiento duradero, el amante de las corridas de tor os, el revolucionario en ciernes empecinado en servir a la humanidad más desprotegida, el padre de conciencia cuestionadora, es el que asimismo tiene la osadía de secuestrar un avión para huir en busca de la libertad o disfrazarse de monje para escapar de ser atrapado por golpistas. Todo eso es Daniel Chavarría, el prolífico escritor uruguayo de profunda impronta cubana que en este libr o presenta, para nuestro extremo deleite, la narración de su propia vida. Sus memorias son el relato más entretenido, sabio y deso pilante que pueda llegar a nuestras manos. Ya es hora de que los defensores de Cuba nos expresemos sin tapujos, y que el mundo si ga andando. Y los que vienen con cámaras a fotografiar paredes descascaradas y solares y bembés en busca de la Cuba profunda andan mal rumbeados. La Cuba profunda está en las universidades, en las escuelas de arte?, en sus treinta y cinco mil médicos que prest an servicios en el Tercer Mundo?