Carpentier, Alejo
Explosion in a Cathedral
- ISBN 13:
- 9780143133889
- author:
- Carpentier, Alejo
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 19.7 x 12.9 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Historical Fiction, General,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Alejo Carpentier's "Explosion in a Cathedral" is a masterpiece of Latin American fiction that reintroduces English-language readers to this giant of the genre. In its first new English translation in sixty years, this Penguin Classic brings together two worlds: the New World and the Old, revolutionary ideals and the corrupting allure of power. When Victor Hugues arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, he brings with him the idealism of the French Revolution, as well as its ambition and bloodlust. He sweeps a trio of wealthy Creole orphans across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, where he frees enslaved Africans only to exploit them in his fight against the British for colonial sovereignty. This explosive clash between two worlds is at the heart of Carpentier's magical realist masterpiece, which has captivated readers for over seventy-five years.
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