Reinaldo Arenas, Author Viking Books $28.95 (544p) ISBN 978-0-670-84065-6
Reinaldo Arenas was the cursed visionary of late 20th-century Cuban literature, imprisoned by Castro and shunned by pro-Cuba leftist intellectuals in this country after he came over in the Mariel boatlift. His open queerness shocked his...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author TusQuets $25.95 (360p) ISBN 978-84-7223-485-7
With the success of Julian Schnabel's art-house movie Before Night Falls, based on the autobiography of Arenas and starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem, Arenas has begun to solidify his place in the Latin American canon. Almost unknown when he...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author TusQuets $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-84-8310-156-8
With the success of Julian Schnabel's art-house movie Before Night Falls, based on the autobiography of Arenas and starring Spanish actor Javier Bardem, Arenas has begun to solidify his place in the Latin American canon. Almost unknown when he...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Dolores Koch, Translator, Doleres Koch, Translator Viking Books $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-670-84078-6
In this powerful memoir of passions both personal and political, Cuban author Arenas ( Hallucinations ) describes his voyage from peasant poverty to his oppression as a dissident writer and homosexual. His voracious sexuality pervades the book (numer
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator, Thomas Colchie, Introduction by Penguin Books $17 (448p) ISBN 978-0-14-006636-4
This story of despair in Castro's Cuba is told through the voices of Hector, a disenchanted revolutionary and poet, and his nameless wife. PW commented: ""Nightmarish, at times an impenetrable tangle of myth and dreams, this is a horrifying...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator, Thomas Colchie, Introduction by Penguin Books $16 (240p) ISBN 978-0-14-009444-2
A child's strange, grotesque fantasies and visions are the subject of this novel by Cuban writer Arenas, the first in a five-part series that includes Farewell to the Sea. Lacking a story line, chronology and clear delineation of character, ""this...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator Viking Books $20.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-670-84066-3
Set after the ``last big war'' in a society of ``degenerate beasts''--where human beings have snouts and claws and the criminals sport polished shaved heads--this is the final novel in the late Cuban-born Arenas's ``Pentagonia'' quintet ( Singing...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator, Thomas Colchie, Introduction by Penguin Books $14 (176p) ISBN 978-0-14-015718-5
Arenas's latest novel follows a Cuban federal agent whose hatred of Castro's government reflects the state of affairs in the author's homeland. (June)
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Dolores M. Koch, Translator Grove/Atlantic $16.95 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1109-8
Cuban novelist Arenas's ( Old Rosa ) exquisitely wrought surreal fantasy is a sardonic Swiftian parable on human cruelty and the impulse to flee from freedom. Juan, a Cuban refugee and overzealous doorman at a Manhattan luxury building, wants to...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Ann T. Slater, Translator, Andrew Hurley, Translator Grove/Atlantic $16.95 (106p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1092-3
It's fascinating to observe the talented author's development in these two novellas, written five years apart. Arenas's emotionally charged, lyrical prose becomes firmer, more focused as he abandons magical realism and delves more intimately into...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator Viking Books $18.95 (413p) ISBN 978-0-670-52960-5
Twice confiscated by Cuban authorities and rewritten from memory, this extraordinary litany of despairthe story of life in Cuba under Castrois told through the voice of a wife (who remains nameless), then through that of her husband, Hector, a...
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Reinaldo Arenas, Author, Andrew Hurley, Translator Viking Books $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-670-81510-4
Arenas's ( Singing from the Well ) stunning novel, set during the Cuban revolution, begins with the ominous figure of Death sitting in the yard of an impoverished rural family, spinning a bicycle wheel. In the course of the novel, God will make an...
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