Singing from the Well (King Penguin)
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Author
Contributions
- Thomas Colchie (Introduction) - Contributor
- Andrew Hurley (Translator) - Contributor
Publication
2000-07-03 - Penguin (Non-Classics)
Word Count
60,000 words, Guess
Page Count
240 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivesingingfromwell00aren_0
- ISBN-10014009444X
- ISBN-139780140094442
- Goodreads36553
- Open LibraryOL9302139M
Description
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 in Reinaldo 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.
First Sentence
"There went my mother, she just went running out the door."
Other Editions
- Singing from the Well (King Penguin)
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