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Before Night Falls

Reinaldo Arenas

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1992
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 320

His manuscripts kept disappearing: seized by the police, smuggled off the island, and each time Reinaldo Arenas rewrote them from memory. This memoir was his last race, dictated and set down in a New York apartment as AIDS closed in, the testament of a life Castro's Cuba spent years trying to erase.

I scream, therefore I exist.
Before Night Falls, Reinaldo Arenas

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