The Assault

In this, the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his "secret history of Cuba", Reinaldo Arenas paints a harrowing, and at times boldly entertaining, Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday. Narrated by a hate-filled government torturer who has become an agent for the "Bureau of Counterwhispering"," The Assault follows his travels through a blackly humorous shadowland as he winnow out whisperers, sexual deviants, and dissidents of every sort--until memory has been banished and spoken language has been nearly forgotten.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 06/01/1995
ISBN: 9780140157185
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.09w x 0.49d

Review Citations: New York Times 12/03/1995 pg. 86
New York Times 07/16/1995 pg. 32
Publishers Weekly 05/15/1995