Before Night Falls: A Memoir - Softcover

Arenas, Reinaldo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140157654 ISBN 13: 9780140157659

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Arenas Reinaldo

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Reseña del editor

This is the shocking memoir by visionary Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, giving an account of his life as a writer and a homosexual and his struggle for freedom of expression. He describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, his suppression as a writer, imprisonment as a homosexual, and his flight from Cuba via the Mariel boat lift. He never really reconciled himself to life in America away from the beloved country of his birth, and committed suicide in 1990 at the age of 47, already dying from Aids.

Biografía del autor

Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death from AIDS ten years later.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140157654
• ISBN 13: 9780140157659
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 336