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This is the fifth in a sequence of five novels and is both "a secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiography. The first four volumes are "Singing From the Well", "The Palace of the White Skunks", "Farewell to the Sea" and "El Color del Verano".
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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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This is the fifth in a sequence of five novels and is both "a secret history of Cuba" and a writer's autobiography. The first four volumes are "Singing From the Well", "The Palace of the White Skunks", "Farewell to the Sea" and "El Color del Verano".
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