Singing from the well / Reinaldo Arenas ; translated by Andrew Hurley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990.

Contributor:

Hurley, Andrew, 1944- translator.

Penn Sexuality Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

King Penguin

A King penguin

Standardized Title:

Celestino antes del alba. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Cuba--Fiction.

Cuba.

Genre:

Bildungsromans.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

206 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y., U.S.A. : Penguin Books, 1988.

Language Note:

Translation of: Celestino antes del alba.

Summary:

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.

Local Notes:

Gift of the William Way LGBT Community Center.

Other Format:

Online version: Arenas, Reinaldo, 1943-1990. Celestino antes del alba. English. Singing from the well.

ISBN:

014009444X

9780140094442

OCLC:

16923134