Author: Reinaldo Arenas
- Fiction
- TusQuets
- ISBN: 9788483100820
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

El color del verano is a Rabelaisian masterpiece written by Arenas as he lay dying from complications from AIDS in a hospital bed. It’s an experimental novel, a series of vignettes and a roman-a-clef that tells the story in the uncompromising language of Reinaldo’s youth and his friends, a lost generation of gays that suffer under the despotic rule of Fifo, a dictator who hates everything that is beautiful, genuine and spontaneous in life. It contains a 50 page poem of rhymed couplets and prose which at its best is magisterial.