Explosion in a Cathedral - Alejo Carpentier, Adrian Nathan West (Translator)

Unknown, Adrian Nathan West (Translator), Alejo Carpentier

Category: Historical Fiction

Tags: Historical Fiction, Adults

If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . Wests translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of Books, One of Cubasand Latin Americasgreatest 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 Carpentiers swashbuckling, magical realis