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Before Night Falls
Before Night Falls
paperback
Published:
1 June, 2017
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781781258682 |
| ISBN10 | 1781258686 |
| Number Of Pages | 336 |
| Item Weight | 240 g |
| Product Dimensions | 128 x 196 x 24 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Profile Books Ltd |
| Format | paperback |
| Edition | Main - Classic edition |
Media Reviews
One of the most shattering testimonials ever written on the subject of oppression and defiance -- Mario Vargas Llosa
Reading Arenas is like witnessing a bare consciousness in the process of assimilating the most universal, but powerful, human experiences and turning them into literature * The New York Times *
Any attempt to reckon with Cuba's torturous twentieth century will have to take into account Arenas's monumental work ... an essential human testimony, joyful and enraged, a triumph of conscience -- Garth Greenwell
A document of a particular and disturbing honesty by one of the truly great writers to come out of Latin America * Chicago Tribune *
One of the most searing satirical writers of the 20th century, a worthy successor to Aristophanes and Swift -- Jaime Manrique * Village Voice *
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Author's Bio
Reinaldo Arenas was born in Holguín, Cuba, in 1943. His first novel, Singing from the Well, was awarded First Mention in Cuba's Cirilo Villaverde National Competition. It was to be his only book published in his native country. Both as a gay man and a writer, he found himself persecuted by the Cuban government, and had to smuggle his work out of the country for publication in France. He left Cuba in 1980 and settled in New York, where he lived until his death in 1990.