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Reinaldo Arenas: Before Night Falls: Reinaldo Arenas [2017] paperback SHIST They hold surprising power inReinaldo Arenas was born to a poverty stricken family in rural Cuba. By the time of his death in New York four decades later, he had become one of Cuba's most important poets, an outspoken critic of Castro's regime and one of the leading gay voices of the twentieth century. In Before Night Falls, Arenas tells of his odyssey from young rebel fighting for the Revolution, through his suppression as a writer, his disillusionment with Castro, his