by Miguel Barroso · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020376174
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«Des fourmis plein la bouche» is the crime novel by Miguel Barroso, published by Seuil in paperback (304 pages, in French).
Martín Losada, an ex-convict from Franco's prisons, arrives in Havana in 1959 looking for his friend Albert Dalmau. No one seems to know what became of him, so with the help of a taxi driver and former boxing champion he launches an investigation among mobsters and corrupt officials, while Batista's regime collapses and Fidel Castro draws near.
Work originally published in Spanish as «Amanecer con hormigas en la boca»; this French edition from Seuil (2000) belongs to the Cadre vert collection.
For those seeking stories set in Cuba with political tension and crime in 1959 Havana.
