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Farewell to the Sea: A Novel of Cuba by Reinaldo Arenas

bgg616's review

This novel set in 1980's Cuba focuses on a married, closeted gay man. It is written in a kind of stream-of-consciousness that made it very hard to read. It jumps around from the couple vacationing (though in humble circumstances) at the beach with their infant, the husbands erotic homosexual fantasies, and discontent with the Cuban system, government and regime. As this is almost 500 pages long, after 75 pages I gave up. The writing style was hard to fathom and the subject matter while familiar, too elusive. Life is too short for some books.