This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge from Castro's Cuba recounts Arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonmen...

In this apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, a young couple 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. Reinaldo Aren...

Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exi...

A terrifying and beautiful novel, Old Rosa is composed of two stories that converge on a single charged point in the lives of a Cuban mother and son. In the first, the mother finds her son in bed with another boy; in the second, the s...

This first novel in Arenas's 'secret history of Cuba'-- a quintet he called the Pentagonia--is a powerful story of growing up in a world where nightmare has become reality, and fantasy provides the only escape.'One of the most beautif...

A passionate, epic writer, the author of Before Night Falls, concludes his five-novel sequence--a 'secret history of Cuba' and a writer's autobiography--with this allegorical satire. Arenas paints a harrowing yet boldly entertaining K...