Daniel Chavarria Books In Order

Adios Muchachos

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 fine derri re. 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 ‘adi s to the dilapidated island of Cuba. Daniel Chavarr a 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, Chavarr a 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. Chavarr a has won numerous literary awards around the world, including a 1992 Dashiell Hammett Award. Adi s Muchachos is 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.

The Eye of Cybele

Daniel Chavarr a has long been recognized as one of Latin America’s finest writers…
‘ Edgar Award winning author William HeffernanDaniel Chavarr a’s most celebrated novel to date, The Eye of Cybele is the internationally acclaimed author’s second book in English translation. The Eye is a tremendous literary accomplishment, an epic mystery set in ancient Greece in the time of Pericles. A mad priest and an entrancing who*re join the likes of Alcibiades and Socrates in a quest for a lost jewel the Dyndimenian Eye. Chavarr a’s knowledge of Greek history and command of language guide him masterfully through this stunning and highly original work. The novel has already won four literary awards around the world: Premio Ennio Flaiano Award Italy; Premio Internacional Planeta Joaqu n Mortiz Award Mexico; Premio del Ministerio de Educaci n y Cultura Award Uruguay and Premio de la Cr tica Award Cuba.’Out of the mystery wrapped in an enigma that, over the last forty years, has been Cuba for the US, comes a voice so cheerful, a face so laughing, and a mind so deviously optimistic that we can only hope this is but the beginning of a flood of Latin America’s indomitable novelists, playwrights, storytellers. Welcome, Daniel Chavarr a.’ Donald Westlake, author of Trust Me on This’I recommend that we all do as Fidel likely does: light up a cigar and turn Chavarr a’s pages, with pleasure.’ Thomas Adcock, author of Grief StreetDaniel Chavarr a is a Uruguayan writer whose novels, short stories, literary journalism, and screenplays have reached audiences across Latin America and Europe. For years, he was a professor of Latin, Greek, and Classical Literature. In 2001, Akashic published Adios Muchachos, Chavarr a’s first book in English translation. BOX :Also available from Danieel Chavarr aAdios MuchachosTP $13. 95, 1 888451 16 5 o CUSA

Tango for a Torturer

Aldo Bianchi, a former Argentine revolutionary now living in Italy, travels to Havana, where he meets the beautiful Bini, a sultry student with great charm and panache working the hotels. Bianchi soon discovers via his liaison with Bini that his nemesis, the Uruguayan military torturer Alberto R os, is living under a false identity in Cuba. Putting his tropical holiday on hold, Bianchi goes on the hunt for his sad*istic enemy.

Daniel Chavarr a authentically portrays the sensuousness and skullduggery of contemporary Havana, a city that offers erotic thrills to pleasure seeking tourists, even as it hides villains in its humid embrace. While R os thrives on bribery and corruption, Bianchi is driven by a desire to see justice done. Tango for a Torturer is a sexy and political thriller chock full of bawdy humor and chilling evocations of the evils wrought by Latin American military dictatorships.

Daniel Chavarr a, a former Tupamaros who hijacked a plane to fly himself to Havana in 1969, is a Uruguayan writer with two passions: classical literature and prostitutes. For years he was a professor of Latin, Greek, and classical literature, devoting much of his time and energy to researching the origins and evolution of prostitution. He has won numerous literary awards around the world, including the 1992 Dashiell Hammett Award and the 2002 Edgar Allan Poe Award. His novels Adios Muchachos and The Eye of Cybele are also published by Akashic Books. He lives in Havana.