Color of Summer, or the New Garden of Earthly Delights

Arenas, Reinaldo

ISBN 10: 0670840653 / ISBN 13: 9780670840656

Published by Viking Adult, 2000

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Synopsis:

The final work from one of the finest Latin American authors offers a powerful and passionate saga of the triumph of the human spirit and will in the face of political and sexual repression. By the author of Before Night Falls.

About the Author: 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Color of Summer, or the New Garden of ...
Publisher: Viking Adult
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: like_new