Before Night Falls

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Before Night Falls

Author	Reinaldo Arenas
Original title	Antes que anochezca: autobiografía
Translator	Dolores M. Koch
Language	Spanish
Genre	Autobiography
Publisher	Tusquets Editores (original) Viking Press (English translation
Publication date	1992
Publication place	Cuba
Published in English	1993
Media type	Print
Pages	317 pp
ISBN	978-0-670-84078-6

Before Night Falls (Spanish: Antes que anochezca: autobiografía) is the 1992 autobiography of Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas, describing his early life in Cuba, his time in prison, and his escape to the United States in the Mariel boatlift of 1980. It received a favorable review from The New York Times and was on the newspaper's list of the ten best books of 1993.^[1] The book was adapted into a film of the same name in 2000, starring Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp.