Tropical animal
By: Pedro Juan Gutiérrez ; translated from the Spanish by Peter Lownds.
Contributors: Lownds, Peter.
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Description: Pedru Juan paints in his crumbling Havana apartment, beset by a growing sense of melancholy as he observes the lives of the hustlers, hipsters, and hookers in the city below. He is pursued by Gloria, a proud and sophisticated prostitute, bent on curbing his wandering instincts.