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Chargement... Adios, muchachospar Daniel Chavarria
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Siguiendo la línea del argumento de intriga, como en sus anteriores novelas, Chavarría recrea ahora una trama picaresca en la que la muerte, el dinero y el sexo, tienen como escenario las calles de La Habana Vieja. Alicia, una jinetera que recorre la ciudad en bicicleta, se ve envuelta en una relación con Víctor King, un negociante canadiense con un pasado oscuro y sueños de riqueza. Además de satisfacer las peticiones sexuales alterntivas de su posible salvador, tiene que arreglárselas para librarse del cadáver de un millonario holandés, y sacarle partido a esta desgracia, simulando un secuestro, para tratar de hacer realidad sus pretensiones. A medida que avanza la novela, Alicia y Víctor van quedando atrapados en sucesivas desventuras que los ponen en manos de un pícaro caza fortunas. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Alicia is a smart, confident and gorgeous prostitute in Havana. She is not a street-walker. Rather, she displays her wares on bicycle, seducing men through the irresistible pull of her finederrière. John King, her new client, is a Canadian businessman with a striking resemblance to movie star Alain Delon. This is no ordinary "John" and Alicia's feelings for him grow; she sees in their relationship the possibility of escape from her dead-end life in a Havana plagued with scarcity. When John 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 just as quickly unraveled disastrously,and only one person is able to say "adiós" to the dilapidated island of Cuba. Daniel Chavarría was born in Uruguay in 1933. He spent the 1960s involved in several South American liberation struggles. He fled the continent and settled in Havana, Cuba, where he has resided since 1969. From 1975 to 1986, Chavarría worked as a translator of literature into Spanish, and taught Latin, Greek and Classical Literature at the University of Havana. His novels, short stories, literary journalism, and screenplays have reached audiences across Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Chavarría has won numerous literary awards around the world, including a 1992 Dashiell Hammett Award.Adiós Muchachosis his first novel to be translated into English. In 2002, Akashic Books will publish his mystery novel,The Eye of Cybele, set in ancient Greece. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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It is a very funny story, mystery with a lot of humor and of course some sex. ( )