Synopsis
Reinaldo Arenas is the most highly aclaimed writer of Cuba's postrevolutionary generation, and The dorrman, his first work set in the United States, breaks new ground with the extraordinary and tragic story of Juan, a young Cuba refugee who becomes a doorman at a luxury apartment building in Manhattan. Oddly alienated from the tenants, Juan finds himself being seduce by their pets -a bear, a rattlesnake, an orangutan, gold fish, cats, dogs- who speak to him, determined to recruit him to their cause: a revolt against human and human society, and a mass flight to liberty.