Explosion in a Cathedral
[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: xxii, 311 pages ; 20 cm.
"One of Cuba's-and Latin America's-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra. When he arrives in Cuba at the close of the eighteenth century, Victor Hugues, a merchant sailor from Marseille, brings with him not only the idealism of the French Revolution but also its ambition and bloodlust. Landing at the Havana doorstep of a trio of wealthy, eccentric Creole orphans, he sweeps them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, whose African slaves he frees only then to exploit them in his fight against the British for colonial sovereignty. What ensues in Alejo Carpentier's swashbuckling, magical realist masterpiece is an explosive clash between the New World and the Old World, and between revolutionary ideals and the corrupting allure of power"-- Provided by publisher.
Series: Penguin classics.
ISBN:
9780143133889
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Carpentier | North Main | Fiction | In |
Translated from the French.
Place of publication from publisher's website.
Place of publication from publisher's website.