by Reinaldo Arenas · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483100820
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In Reinaldo Arenas' Cuba, a wild carnival celebrates the fifty years of Fifo, a deranged dictator. Amidst the festivities, the novel describes the underground life of a rebellious and eroticized youth who refuse to accept oppression. Abuses of power, struggles for survival, and uninhibited desires explode in a testimonial account of the horror and impossibility of a better future on the island.
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who is known as a vocal critic of Fidel Castro, the Cuban Revolution, and the Cuban government. His memoir of the Cuban dissident movement and of being a political prisoner, Before Night Falls, was dictated after his escape to the United States during the 1980 Mariel boatlift and published posthumously. Arenas, who was dying of AIDS, killed himself in 1990.
