Old Rosa : a novel in two stories
/ Reinaldo Arenas ; translated from the Spanish by Ann Tashi Slater and Andrew Hurley
- New York : Grove Press , c1981, c1989.
- 106 p. ; 22 cm.
Translation of: La vieja Rosa, and of: Arturo, la estrella más brillante.
A terrifying and beautiful novel, Old Rosa is composed of two stories that converge on a single charged point in the lives of a Cuban mother and son. In the first, the mother finds her son in bed with another boy; in the second, the son is imprisoned in one of Castro's camps for homosexuals.