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Reinaldo Arenas
Full Series List in Order
Pentagonia
1 - Singing from the Well (1967)2 - The Palace of the White Skunks (Jan-1991)
3 - Farewell to the Sea (Dec-1985)
4 - The Color of Summer (Jul-2000)
5 - The Assault (Jul-1994)
Book List in Order: 12 titles
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Singing from the Well
- 1967
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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, anot...
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Hallucinations
- Jun-1976
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In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando -- priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunders...
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Farewell to the Sea
- Dec-1985
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In this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them. In a s...
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The Palace of the White Skunks
- Jan-1991
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The second novel in the Pentagonia, this is a phantasmagoric novel of adolescent rebellion and political revolution.
"A beautiful, heartfelt book by a passionate and epic writer at the height of his powers." --Oscar Hijuelos... -
The Assault
- Jul-1994
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In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuali...
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The Doorman
- Sep-1994
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Arenas’s first work set in the United States breaks new ground with the story of a young Cuban refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building. Oddly alienated from the tenants, he is seduced by their pets, who are determined to revolt...
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Mona and Other Tales
- Sep-2001
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Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the ...
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Hallucinations: or, The Ill-Fated Peregrinations of Fray Servando
- Jan-2002
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In the brilliant tradition of Don Quixote and Candide, this passionate novel by the author of Before Night Falls is a modern masterpiece of Latin American fiction. Fray Servando -- priest, blasphemer, dueler of monsters, irresistible lover, misunders...
