Singing from the well
Arenas, Reinaldo , 1943-1990
Singing from the well / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books , 1988, c1987. - 206 p. ; 20 cm. - A King Penguin .
Translation of: Celestino antes del alba.
His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills surrounding his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears flowers in her hair, and his cousin Celestino, a poet who inscribes verse on the trunks of trees, understands his visions.The first novel in Reinaldo Arenas's "secret history of Cuba," a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of a childhood besieged by horror--and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.
9780140094442
87029183
Gay authors
Gay writings, Latin America
Cuba----Fiction
PQ7390.A72 / C413 1988
LAS FIC ARE
Singing from the well / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley - New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books , 1988, c1987. - 206 p. ; 20 cm. - A King Penguin .
Translation of: Celestino antes del alba.
His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills surrounding his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears flowers in her hair, and his cousin Celestino, a poet who inscribes verse on the trunks of trees, understands his visions.The first novel in Reinaldo Arenas's "secret history of Cuba," a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of a childhood besieged by horror--and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.
9780140094442
87029183
Gay authors
Gay writings, Latin America
Cuba----Fiction
PQ7390.A72 / C413 1988
LAS FIC ARE
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