Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls

UK 2017, 317 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Serpent´s Tail
Reinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty-stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of 20th- century. In »Before Night Falls«, Arenas tells of his odyssey from young rebel ... Weiterlesen

Noelle M. Stout: After Love

Queer Intimacy and Erotic Encounters in Post-Soviet Cuba. USA 2014, 272 pp. with photographs, brochure, € 34.95
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Duke University Press
The anthropologist author arrived in Havana in 2002 to study the widely publicized emergence of gay tolerance in Cuba but discovered that the sex trade was dominating everyday discussions among gays, lesbians, and »travesties«. Largely eradicated after the Revolution, sex work, including same-sex prostitution, exploded in Havana when the island was opened to foreign tourism in the early 1990s. The ... Weiterlesen

Cristy C. Road: Spit and Passion

USA 2012, 160 pp., b/w, brochure, € 15.95
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Feminist Press
At its core, »Spit and Passion« is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Suddenly, you belong. At 12 years old, Cristy C. Road is trying to balance the values of a Cuban catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. In ... Weiterlesen

Fiona Zedde: Every Dark Desire

USA 2007, 327 pp., brochure, € 12.99
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Naomi McElroy's life in Jamaica has always been about the comforts of family and home. But secretly, she yearns for something more. When she surrenders to seduction in a jasmine-scented garden under a full moon, her life is changed forever. In that moment of complete ecstasy, Naomi becomes Belle, one of the undead whose carnal hungers are never sated. Now ... Weiterlesen

Mari SanGiovanni: Greetings From Jamaica, Wish You were Queer ...

USA 2007, 260 pp., brochure, € 13.89
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Marie Santora has always known her Italian family is a little crazy, but when she inherits her grandmother's estate, they now have a million more reasons to act nuts. It soon becomes clear that the amount of money Marie needs to live comfortably will be decided by her family. Marie plans her escape. She'll give her family a parting gift ... Weiterlesen

Brendan Lemon: Last Night

USA 2003, 240 pp., brochure, € 14.69
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John Webster will most likely die tomorrow. In the hot Havana morning, an executioner may take his life as punishment for the murder of a teenage boy. Late into the night, alone in his cell in a decaying prison, John begins to compose a letter. He struggles to assemble the sharp, brilliant fragments of his life into a coherent image ... Weiterlesen

Reinaldo Arenas: Farewell to the Sea

USA 1987, 414 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Penguin USA
In this brilliant, apocalyptic vision of Castro's Cuba, we meet a young couple who leave the dreariness of Havana and spend six days at a small seaside retreat, where they hope to recapture the desire and carefree spirit that once united them. In a stunning juxtaposition of narrative voices, the wife recounts the grim reality of her marriage, the demands ... Weiterlesen

Reinaldo Arenas: The Assault

USA 1994, 145 pp, brochure, € 14.95
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The author of the brilliant and highly acclaimed memoir, »Before Night Falls«, Reinaldo Arenas concluded his sequence of five novels - at once a »secret history of Cuba« and a writer's autobiography - with an allegorical satire. In »The Assault«, he paints a harrowing, yet at times boldly entertaining, Kafkaesque picture of a dehumanized people and the despair of an ... Weiterlesen