{"product_id":"singing-from-the-well-9780140094442","title":"Singing from the Well","description":"His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod. His grandmother burns his precious crosses for kindling. His cousins meet to plot their grandfather's death. Yet in the hills surrounding his home, another reality exists, a place where his mother wears flowers in her hair, and his cousin Celestino, a poet who inscribes verse on the trunks of trees, understands his visions.\u003cp\u003eThe first novel in \u003cb\u003eReinaldo Arenas\u003c\/b\u003e's \"secret history of Cuba,\" a quintet he called the Pentagonia, \u003cb\u003eSinging from the Well\u003c\/b\u003e is by turns explosively crude and breathtakingly lyrical. In the end, it is a stunning depiction of a childhood besieged by horror--and a moving defense of liberty and the imagination in a world of barbarity, persecution, and ignorance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Adult Hc\/Tr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1988\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140094442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.84h x 5.00w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/1988\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reinaldo Arenas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43448908611765,"sku":"9780140094442","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_c0515825-d50c-4a9f-8acf-3f44f15293ee.jpg?v=1704214318","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/singing-from-the-well-9780140094442","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}