About the Authors
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Foreword by JAIME MANRIQUE
Introduction: The End by REINALDO ARENAS
BEFORE NIGHT FALLS
The Stones
The Grove
The River
School
The Temple of the Spirits
The Well
Christmas Eve
The Harvest
The Downpour
The Spectacle
Eroticism
Violence
The Morning Fog
The Night, My Grandmother
The Earth
The Sea
Politics
Holguín
The Rub Pub
Christmas
Rebel
The Revolution
A Student
Havana
Fidel Castro
Hymns
The Fire
Theatrics and the Chicken Farm
Raúl
Good-bye to the Chicken Farm
The Library
The Cuban Book Institute
The Four Categories of Gays
Virgilio Piñera
Lezama Lima
My Generation
A Trip
Jorge and Margarita
Santa Marica (Saint Queer)
The Abreu Brothers
Super-Stalinism
The Sugar Mill
Olga Andreu
The Padilla “Case”
A Trip to Holguín
Nelson Rodríguez
The Wedding
The Arrest
The Flight
The Capture
Prison
Villa Marista
Again at El Morro
An “Open” Jail
Out on the Street
The Monserrate Hotel
Good-bye to Virgilio
Mariel
Key West
Miami
Exile
Witches
Mariel Magazine
Travels
Madness
The Eviction
The Announcement
Dreams
Farewell
