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Critics worldwide have praised Reinaldo Arenas's writing
His extraordinary memoir, Before Night Falls, was chosen by the editors of The New York Times Book Review as one of the fourteen Best Books of 1993& was hailed as one of the most shattering testimonials ever written by Mario Vargas Llosa. His fiction reveals a profoundly original writer ... Reading Arenas is like witnessing a bare consciousness in the process of assimilating the most universal, but powerful, human experiences & turning them into literature (The New York Times Book Review). The Color of Summer, Arenas's finest comic achievement, is the fourth novel in a quintet he called the Pentagonia. Although it is the penultimate chapter in his secret history of Cuba, it was, in fact, the last book Arenas wrote before his death in 1990. (The final volume, The Assault, was written first & published in 1994.) A Rabelaisian tale of survival by wits & wit, The Color of Summer is ultimately a powerful & passionate story about the triumph of the human spirit over the forces of political & sexual repression.
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