The Assault.
by Arenas, Reinaldo
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
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Alfriston, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- Much Ado Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27710
- Title
- The Assault.
- Author
- Arenas, Reinaldo
- Format/Binding
- Hardback.
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking, London, NY, etc. First edition.1994. Translated by Andrew Hurley.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction and Literature;
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