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Singing from the well / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley

By:

Arenas, Reinaldo, , 1943-1990

Contributor(s):

Hurley, Andrew

Material type: Text

TextSeries: A King PenguinPublication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books , 1988, c1987.Description: 206 p. ; 20 cmISBN:

9780140094442

Uniform titles:

Celestino antes del alba . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS FIC ARE

LOC classification:

PQ7390.A72 C413 1988

Summary: 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.

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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.

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