{"product_id":"singing-from-the-well-paperback","title":"Singing from the Well - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eHis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first novel in \u003cb\u003eReinaldo Arenas\u003c\/b\u003e's \"secret history of Cuba,\" a quintet he called the Pentagonia, \u003cb\u003eSinging from the Well\u003c\/b\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA POWERFUL NOVEL OF GROWING UP IN A WORLD WHERE NIGHTMARE HAS BECOME REALITY, AND FANTASY PROVIDES THE ONLY ESCAPE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his treasured 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 childhood besieged by horro -- and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104976933087,"sku":"9780140094442","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4_CYLJ4a-E9780140094442.webp?v=1781114792","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/singing-from-the-well-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}