Before Night Falls - A Memoir (Paperback, New ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 1995
First published:	October 1994
Authors:	Reinaldo Arenas
Translators:	Dolores M. Koch
Dimensions:	197 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	317
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-015765-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > From 1900 Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-14-015765-4
Barcode:	9780140157659

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