Inspired by the N.Y. Times review comparing Gutierrez to Jean Genet, I bought this book. Don't!!! It is an vulgar catalogue of cheap sexual encounters without credibility, taste or eroticism. The main character is unendearing, the episodes predictable, and the language banal (to be fair, perhaps due to the translation). Why would all these attractive women -- young and old -- take up with such a scruffy, lazy, worthless, drunken, mooching bum? I kept reading "Dirty Havana Trilogy" awaiting insight into modern Cuba or Pedro Juan. There is none. This is not a modern Cubano "Tom Jones," this is trash!