Before Night Falls

By: Reinaldo Arenas

Published June 15th 2001 by Serpents Tail (first published 1992)

Category: Biography

Pages: 317 pages

ISBN: 9781852428082

Description:
Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Fidel Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexual. Very quickly the Castro government suppressed his writing and persecuted him for his homosexuality until he was finally imprisoned.