The Assault
by Reinaldo Arenas
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670840661
- ISBN 13
- 9780670840663
- Seller
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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
- Washburn Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 014632
- Title
- The Assault
- Author
- Reinaldo Arenas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First English Translation
- ISBN 10
- 0670840661
- ISBN 13
- 9780670840663
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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