Mecánica popular
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez

FICTION | 2024 | FORTHCOMING

A delirious, wondrous, autobiographical story about years of radical and chaotic change in Cuba.

Cuba registered radical, dizzying, chaotic, and violent changes during the 60s and 70s. Carlitos is a curious kid who wants to know everything. And he discovers that world with his investigative spirit: his family’s poverty, reading comics, sex, first jobs to earn some money and help out, his rich and elegant relatives who have been displaced by revolution, and the pain of exile.

Evidently, Carlitos is the author’s alter ego, and he submerges us in a world that we couldn’t have imagined, in the memory of those essential and crazy years. With quick, lucid, effective prose, Pedro Juan Gutiérrez offers us a delirious and wondrous autobiographical story about difficult years.  

RIGHTS: spanish ANAGRAMA

BY PEDRO JUAN GUTIÉRREZ:

Mecánica popular
SHORT STORIES, 2024
Estoico y frugal
NOVEL, 2019
Diálogo con mi sombra
MEMOIR, 2017
Fabián y el caos
NOVEL, 2015
Corazón mestizo
NOVEL, 2007
El nido de la serpiente
NOVEL, 2006
Nuestro GG en La Habana
NOVEL, 2004
Carne de perro
NOVEL, 2003
El insaciable hombre araña
NOVEL, 2002
Animal tropical
NOVEL, 2000
Melancolía de los leones
STORIES, 2000
El rey de La Habana
NOVEL, 1999
Trilogía sucia de La Habana
NOVEL, 1998