This wonderful autobiography ofthe great Cuban intellectual Reinaldo Arenas tells us what it means to live inCuba, being an homosexual and writer, before and after the Revolution.

Arenas never gave up fighting for his freedom and he is remembered as an example of courage, as he was persecuted by the regime and by diseases until the end of his days.

A heartrending book, full of emotions, a story of dreams and fears, of passions and disappointments. A great hymn to friendship and freedom, to the hope of a country free from the oppression of dictatorship:



“I urge theCuban people in exile, as the inhabitants of the Island, to continue to fightfor freedom. My message is not pessimistic, it is a message of struggle and hope… ”


Reinaldo Arenas, Prima che sia notte
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