The Color of Summer

or The New Garden of Earthly Delights

Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley, Thomas Colchie

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Penguin Random House Australia
01 June 2001

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Erotic fiction

Series: Pentagonia

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 major motion picture.

The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is also the fulfillment of his life's work, the Pentagonia, a five-volume cycle of novels he began writing in his early twenties. Although it is the penultimate installment in his ""secret history of Cuba,"" it was, in fact, the last book Arenas wrote before his death in 1990. A Rabelaisian tale of survival by wits and wit, The Color of Summer is ultimately a powerful and passionate story about the triumph of the human spirit over the forces of political and sexual repression.

By: Reinaldo Arenas
Introduction by: Thomas Colchie
Translated by: Andrew Hurley
Imprint: Penguin Random House Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 195mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 380g
ISBN: 9780140157192
ISBN 10: 0140157190
Series: Pentagonia
Pages: 496
Publication Date: 01 June 2001
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. Andrew Hurley is a translator of numerous works of literature, criticism, history, and memoir. He is professor emeritus at the University of Puerto Rico. 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.