Heroes Are Grazing In my Garden: A Novel

by Heberto Padilla

Overview

A chilling account of the fate of intellectuals and artists in contemporary Cuba, Herberto Padilla's frankly autobioghraphical novel is the story of a writer who refuses to give over to the revolutionary state othe power of his art. In the process, Heroes Are Grazing In my Garden paints an astonishingly realistic portrait of an idealist movement gone sour, and the lives of the men and womern lost in the somber turn of the tide.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374527402
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/01/1999
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Heberto Padilla (1932-2000) was a Cuban poet who served time in prison for criticizing the Cuban government. In addition to Legacies, his own selection of poems from throughout his career, Padilla also wrote the autobiographical novel Heroes Are Grazing In My Garden and the memoir Self-Portrait of the Other. He and his second wife, poet Belkis Cuza Male, divided their time between Princeton, New Jersey and Madrid, Spain.