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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100140157182
ISBN-139780140157185
eBay Product ID (ePID)37090
Product Key Features
Book TitleAssault : a Novel
Number of Pages176 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLgbt / Gay, Literary, Political
Publication Year1995
GenreFiction
AuthorReinaldo Arenas
Book SeriesPentagonia Ser.
FormatUk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.7 Oz
Item Length7.7 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-032554
Dewey Edition20
TitleLeadingThe
Grade FromTwelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal863
Grade ToUP
SynopsisIn 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., 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 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.