The Color of Summer by Reinaldo Arenas - ISBN: 9780140157192
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Cuban revolution, absurdity, and the human spirit’s vibrant triumph.

The Color of Summer

or The New Garden of Earthly Delights

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  • Paperback

    496 pages

  • Release Date

    1 June 2001

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Summary

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 pe…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780140157192
ISBN-10:0140157190
Author:Reinaldo Arenas, Andrew Hurley, Thomas Colchie
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Penguin Random House Australia
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:496
Release Date:1 June 2001
Weight:380g
Dimensions:195mm x 129mm x 26mm
Series:Pentagonia
About The Author

Reinaldo Arenas

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.

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