This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge From Castro's cuba recounts arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer a...This shocking personal and political memoir from one of the most visionary writers to emerge From Castro's cuba recounts arenas' stunning odyssey--from his poverty-stricken childhood through his suppression as a writer and imprisonment as a homosexual to his flight to America and subsequent life and death in New York. A New York times best book of 1993.