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Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba

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by Reinaldo Arenas
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Availability:In StockContributor:Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley (Translator), Thomas Colchie (Introduction by)Series:PentagoniaAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1987-07-07Pages:448
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140066364ISBN-10:140066365UPC:9780140066364Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, LGBTQ+, PsychologicalBook Topic:GaySize:7.78 x 5.12 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SC5Z1B8QVN
"...a passionate indictment of tyranny." -- The New Yorker

Twice confiscated by Cuban authorities and rewritten from memory, this is Arenas' most celebrated novel

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 stunning juxtaposition of narrative voices, the wife recounts the grim reality of her marriage, the demands of motherhood, and her loss of freedom, innocence, and hope; while her husband, a disillusioned poet and disenchanted revolutionary, recalls his political struggles and laments the artistic and homosexual freedom that has been denied him. Rich in hallucination, myth and fantasy, Farewell to the Sea is a fierce and unforgettable work that speaks for the entire human condition.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140066364ISBN-10:140066365UPC:9780140066364Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, LGBTQ+, PsychologicalBook Topic:GaySize:7.78 x 5.12 x 0.96 inchesWeight:0.7716Product ID:SC5Z1B8QVN
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.

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.


Publisher: Penguin Books

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Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley (Translator), Thomas Colchie (Introduction by)

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Reinaldo Arenas

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