Before Night Falls
by Arenas, Reinaldo
The shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas "is a book above all about being free," said The New York Review of Books--sexually, politically, artistically. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his supression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift, and his subsequent life and the events leading to his death in New York. In what The Miami Herald calls his "deathbed ode to eroticism," Arenas breaks through the code of secrecy and silence that protects the privileged in a state where homosexuality is a political crime. Recorded in simple, straightforward prose, this is the true story of the Kafkaesque life and world re-created in the author's acclaimed novels.
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New York: Viking, 1993. Hardcover. 317p., later printing, remainder mark on bottom edge, else very good condition in like dust jacket. The Cuban American novelist came to the US during the Mariel exodus, only to find an unsympathetic reception. He developed AIDS before taking his own life in 1990. Source of the 2000 film starring Javier Bardem and Johnny… Read more about this item Item Price
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