cover image Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba

Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba

Reinaldo Arenas. Penguin Books, $17 (448pp) ISBN 978-0-14-006636-4

This story of despair in Castro's Cuba is told through the voices of Hector, a disenchanted revolutionary and poet, and his nameless wife. PW commented: ""Nightmarish, at times an impenetrable tangle of myth and dreams, this is a horrifying descripton of life in Cuba today.'' (July)