Before night falls
/ Reinaldo Arenas / translated by Dolores M. Koch
- New York : Penguin Books , 1994, c1993.
- xvii, 317 p. ; 20 cm.
"First published in the United States by Viking Penguin, 1993"--T.p. verso.
This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a homosexual to his flight to America and subsequent life and death in New York. A New York Times Best Book of 1993.