Before Night Falls by Dolores M. Koch, Reinaldo Arenas

Before Night Falls

Dolores M. Koch, Reinaldo Arenas

317 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction lgbtqia+ memoir dark emotional sad slow-paced
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Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas describes his poverty-stricken childhood in rural, his adolescence as a rebel fighting for Fidel Castro, and his life in revolutionary Cuba as a homosexual. Very quickly the Castro government suppressed his writing and...

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Moods

dark 76%
emotional 63%
sad 56%
reflective 54%
informative 45%
challenging 43%
tense 32%
inspiring 17%
adventurous 15%
funny 15%
hopeful 6%
lighthearted 4%

Pace

medium 57%
slow 30%
fast 11%

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