Singing from the Well
$46.99
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
1 June 1988
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140094442 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014009444X |
| Author: | Reinaldo Arenas, Thomas Colchie, Andrew Hurley |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 1988 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Pentagonia |
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Critics Review
“A vision of a different Cuba … an almost mythical, enchanted island … With this book, Arenas joins an illustrious group of Cuban writers”.
– THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
About The Author
Reinaldo Arenas
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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