The Assault
A Novel
Reinaldo Arenas author Andrew Hurley translator Thomas Colchie editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:1st Jun '95
Should be back in stock very soon
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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 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.
ISBN: 9780140157185
Dimensions: 197mm x 130mm x 12mm
Weight: 147g
176 pages