Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing. His extraordinary memoir, Before Night Falls, was named one of the fourteen "Best Books of 1993" by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and has now been made into a...

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...

Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading...

"Antes que anochezca" ist die bewegende Autobiographie des kubanischen Schriftstellers Reinaldo Arenas. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte seines Lebens, von seiner Kindheit in Kuba, über seine Jugend als rebellischer Schriftsteller während...