The Assault A Novel |
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| Author:
| Arenas, Reinaldo |
| Translator:
| Hurley, Andrew |
| Introduction by:
| Colchie, Thomas |
| Series title: | Pentagonia Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-14-015718-5 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1995 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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| Imprint: | Penguin Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba",
Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday. Narrated by a hate-filled government torturer who has become an agent for the "Bureau of Counterwhispering","
The Assault follows his travels...
More DescriptionIn this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday. Narrated by a hate-filled government torturer who has become an agent for the "Bureau of Counterwhispering"," The Assault follows his travels through a blackly humorous shadowland as he winnow out whisperers, sexual deviants, and dissidents of every sort--until memory has been banished and spoken language has been nearly forgotten.