Explosion in a Cathedral (Paperback)

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 A Penguin Classic 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 enslaved Africans 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.

General

Imprint:	Penguin Classics
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2023
Authors:	Alejo Carpentier
Translators:	Adrian Nathan West
Foreword by:	Alejandro Zambra
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-14-313388-9
Subtitles:	Spanish
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-14-313388-8
Barcode:	9780143133889

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