Singing from the Well by Arenas, Reinaldo

Singing from the Well (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780140094442)

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Singing from the Well by Arenas, Reinaldo

Singing from the Well

$22.00
Singing from the Well by Arenas, Reinaldo

Singing from the Well

$22.00
Format: Paperback
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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.



Author: Reinaldo Arenas
ISBN-10: 014009444X
ISBN-13: 9780140094442
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 06/01/1988
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 7.84h x 5.00w x 0.66d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/01/1988
By Reinaldo Arenas
By Reinaldo Arenas
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Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death from AIDS ten years later.

Thomas Colchie is an acclaimed translator, editor, and literary agent for international authors. He is the editor of A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes. He has written for the Village Voice and The Washington Post. His translations include Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and (with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark Strand) Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Travelling in the Family.


Andrew Hurley is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico.

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