Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba (Häftad)
avReinaldo Arenas, Thomas Colchie
ISBN: 9780140066364 - UTGIVEN: 1987-07In this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them. In a stunning juxtaposition of narrative voices, the wif[...]
Singing from the Well (Häftad)
avReinaldo Arenas, Thomas Colchie
ISBN: 9780140094442 - UTGIVEN: 1988-06His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills surrounding his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears[...]
Before Night Falls: A Memoir (Häftad)
avReinaldo Arenas
ISBN: 9780140157659 - UTGIVEN: 199410The 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 f[...]
The Doorman (Pocket)
avReinaldo Arenas
ISBN: 9780802134059 - UTGIVEN: 1995-01Arenas's first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt against humans and human society.[...]
Old Rosa (Häftad)
avReinaldo Arenas
ISBN: 9780802134066 - UTGIVEN: 199409A terrifying and beautiful novel, Old Rosa is composed of two stories that converge on a single charged point in the lives of a Cuban mother and son. In the first, the mother finds her son in bed with another boy; in the second, the son is imprisoned in one of Castro's camps for homosexuals.[...]
Becoming Reinaldo Arenas (Häftad)
ISBN: 9780822353966 - UTGIVEN: 2013-05Becoming Reinaldo Arenas explores the life and work of the Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas (1943-1990), who emerged on the Latin American cultural scene in the 1960s and quickly achieved literary fame. Yet as a political dissident and an openly gay man, Arenas also experienced discrimination and persec[...]
