"Dirty Havana Trilogy" chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former journalist now living hand to mouth in and around Cuba, half disgusted and half fascinated by the depths to which he has sunk. Pedro Juan's unsentimental yet sympathetic eye captures a shocking underbelly of today's Cuba. Banned in Cuba, Gutierrez's picaresque novel is a fierce, loving tribute to Havana and the defiant, desperate way of life that flourishes amid its decay.