Singing from the Well

Reinaldo Arenas, Thomas Colchie, Andrew Hurley

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Penguin Random House Australia
01 June 1988

Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Series: Pentagonia

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 his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears flowers in her hair, and his cousin Celestino, a poet who inscribes verse on the trunks of trees, understands his visions.

The first novel inReinaldo Arenas's ""secret history of Cuba,"" a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of a childhood besieged by horror--and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.

By: Reinaldo Arenas
Introduction by: Thomas Colchie
Translated by: Andrew Hurley
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 192g
ISBN: 9780140094442
ISBN 10: 014009444X
Series: Pentagonia
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 June 1988
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reinaldo Arenas was born in Cuba in 1943. In 1980, he was one of 120,000 Cubans who arrived in the United States on the Mariel boatlift. Arenas settled in New York where he lived until his death from AIDS ten years later. Thomas Colchie is an acclaimed translator, editor, and literary agent for international authors. He is the editor of A Hammock Beneath the Mangoes. He has written for the Village Voice and The Washington Post. His translations include Manuel Puig's Kiss of the Spider Woman and (with Elizabeth Bishop, Gregory Rabassa, and Mark Strand) Carlos Drummond de Andrade's Travelling in the Family. Andrew Hurley is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico.

Reviews for Singing from the Well

A vision of a different Cuba . . . an almost mythical, enchanted island . . . With this book, Arenas joins an illustrious group of Cuban writers .-- THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR