Singing from the well / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley
Material type: TextSeries: A King PenguinPublication details: New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books , 1988, c1987.Description: 206 p. ; 20 cmISBN:- 9780140094442
- Celestino antes del alba . English
- LAS FIC ARE
- PQ7390.A72 C413 1988
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Libro - Monografía | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | LAS FIC ARE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 029752 |
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.
There are no comments on this title.