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  • Before Night Falls: A Memoir

    Before Night Falls: A Memoir - Paperback

    Before Night Falls: A Memoir - Paperback

    By Reinaldo Arenas
  • Singing from the Well

    Singing from the Well - Paperback

    Singing from the Well - Paperback

    By Reinaldo Arenas
  • The Assault

    The Assault - Paperback

    The Assault - Paperback

    By Reinaldo Arenas

About Reinaldo Arenas

Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In the 1970s, he was imprisoned multiple times for being gay, which clashed with the beliefs of the Communist regime. Despite the hardships imposed during his imprisonment, Arenas produced a significant body of work, including his Pentagonia, a set of five novels written between the 1960s and 1980s that comprise a "secret history" of post-revolutionary Cuba: Singing from the Well, Farewell to the Sea, Palace of the White Skunks, Color of Summer, and The Assault. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas, ill with AIDS, committed suicide in 1990 shortly after completing Before Night Falls.