Assault

In this the final volume in the series of five novels that constitute his secret history of Cuba <b>Reinaldo Arenas</b> paints a harrowing and at times boldly entertaining Kafka-esque picture of a dehumanized people living in a world where homosexuality is a crime punishable by death and a cockroach hunt makes for a national holiday. Narrated by a hate-filled government torturer who has become an agent for the Bureau of Counterwhispering <b>The Assault</b> follows his travels through a blackly humorous shadowland as he winnow out whisperers sexual deviants and dissidents of every sort--until memory has been banished and spoken language has been nearly forgotten.