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The first novel in Reinaldo Arenas's "secret history of Cuba," a quintet he called the Pentagonia, Singing from the Well 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.
About: His mother talks piously of the heaven that awaits the good, and disciplines him with an ox prod.
About: Overwhelmed by the cruelty of his family, a young boy tries to escape to a fantasy world in the hills surrounding his home
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