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Before Night Falls

Dolores M. Koch, Reinaldo Arenas

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Cuban writer's odyssey of freedom and oppression.

"Before Night Falls" is a raw and profound memoir that isn't just for those interested in LGBTQ or Cuban history, but for anyone who understands the unyielding desire for freedom and self-expression. Arenas weaves his harrowing life story with a clarity that offers readers a window into the resilience of the human spirit amidst political and personal turmoil. It's a testament to the enduring power of art over adversity.

  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Biography/Autobiography (1993)
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Before Night Falls

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ISBN: 9780140157659
Publisher: Penguin Books
Date of Publication: 1994-10-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Goodreads rating: 4.2
(rated by 6420 readers)

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The acclaimed memoir of queer Cuban author Reinaldo Arenas chronicling his tumultuous yet luminary life, from his impoverished upbringing in Cuba to his imprisonment at the hands of a Communist regime. Arenas recounts a stunning odyssey from his poverty-stricken childhood in rural Cuba and his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Castro, through his suppression 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.
 

Cuban writer's odyssey of freedom and oppression.

"Before Night Falls" is a raw and profound memoir that isn't just for those interested in LGBTQ or Cuban history, but for anyone who understands the unyielding desire for freedom and self-expression. Arenas weaves his harrowing life story with a clarity that offers readers a window into the resilience of the human spirit amidst political and personal turmoil. It's a testament to the enduring power of art over adversity.

  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for Gay Biography/Autobiography (1993)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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