Description
Set against an apocalyptic vision of Castro’s Cuba, this fierce novel follows a young couple who flee the suffocating atmosphere of Havana for a brief six-day stay at a seaside retreat, hoping to reclaim the love and freedom they once shared. In a striking interplay of voices, the wife narrates the erosion of her autonomy—through marriage, motherhood, and the slow theft of innocence—while her husband, a disillusioned poet and former revolutionary, recounts political betrayals and the crushing limits placed on artistic and homosexual life. Rewritten from memory after repeated confiscations, the book reads like both indictment and elegy, blending hallucination, myth, and fantasy to expose how tyranny reshapes desire, identity, and truth. With Reinaldo Arenas’s incendiary, lyrical intensity, it becomes an unforgettable meditation on love under oppression and the human will to imagine a life beyond control.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 1987
413 pages
ISBN: 9780140066364
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Details
First Published
1982
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Farewell to the Sea by Reinaldo Arenas.