With his first novel, 60 dies a Cuba, Roger de Gràcia opens the door to a literary adventure about being unlucky in love. Employing a distinctive voice, his light, but intense writing delivers an irreverent, angry tale full of black humor, which approaches desperation. It tells the adventures of a man who, in trying to find out who he is and not lose more of himself, renders himself incapable of living in the moment without dreaming about alternative presents. As the protagonist says “I’ve always been pretentiously mediocre”. Tastes and flavors, sex and the gradual breakdown of a young but somewhat lost man on an island lost in time form the background of the story, which begins when a young couple with relationship problems decide to spend 60 days in Cuba, travelling separately with carte blanche to do what they like, and then meet up again on a specific day and return home – together or apart. But before they finally reunite they will have to live and survive the effects (good and bad) of this fateful decision.
60 Days in Cuba
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