Before Night Falls by Dolores M. Koch, Reinaldo Arenas

Before Night Falls

Dolores M. Koch, Reinaldo Arenas

317 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional sad slow-paced

Description

Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Fidel Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexual. Very quickly the Castro government suppressed his writing and...

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Moods

dark 73%
emotional 68%
sad 63%
challenging 57%
reflective 57%
informative 47%
tense 36%
inspiring 26%
funny 21%
adventurous 15%
hopeful 15%
lighthearted 5%

Pace

slow 47%
medium 29%
fast 23%

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