Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
398 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 1852428082
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Language: English
Publish: 992588400000
AutobiographyBiographyBiography MemoirGayHistoryLGBTMemoirNonfictionQueerSpanish Literature
Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Fidel Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexual. Very quickly the Castro government suppressed his writing and persecuted him for his homosexuality until he was finally imprisoned.