Mona and Other Tales Paperback by Reinaldo Arenas Translated from the Spanish by Dolores M. Koch

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage (2001-09-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 208 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780375727306
• Item Weight: 211.92 grams
• Dimensions: 20.17 x 13.28 x 1.37 cm

Mona and Other Tales covers Reinaldo Arenas's entire career: his recently rediscovered debut (which got him a job at the Biblioteca Nacional in Havana), stories written in a political prison, and some of his last works, written in exile. Many of the stories have not previously appeared in English.

Here is the tender story of a boy who recognizes evil for the first time and decides to ignore it; the tale of a writer struggling between the demands of creativity and of fame; common people dealing with changes brought about by revolution and exile; a romp with a famous, dangerous woman in the Metropolitan Museum; an outrageous fantasy that picks up where Garcia Lorca's famous play The House of Bernardo Alba ends. Told with Arenas's famous wit and humanity, Mona makes a perfect introduction to this important writer.

Translated from the Spanish by Dolores Koch.

About the Author

Reinaldo Arenas died in 1990.