Set in Cuba at the time of the French Revolution, this novel aims to capture the immense changes sweeping the Caribbean at the turn of the 19th century - complete with its wars, sea-life and people. The author - who was amongst the first to use "magic realism" - has also written "The Chase".

Explosion in a Cathedral

Literature & Fiction

Alejo Carpentier

Literary

Harper Colophon Books

A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurpassed brutality, horror, and superstition under the reign of the black King Henri-Christophe. Through the eyes of the ancient slave Ti-Noel, The Kingdom of This World records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, erotomania, and fantastic grandeurs of false elegance.

The kingdom of this world

Genre Fiction

Andre Deutsch Ltd.

Baroque Concerto

Andre Deutsch

The Chase

Havana of 1956 and Batista's tyrannical rule serve as the backdrop for the story of two young men whose lives become intertwined with the prostitute, Estrella

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

His fourth book. Translated from the Spanish by Francis Partridge. Dust jacket design by Muriel Nasser.

War Of Time

Short Stories & Anthologies

Alfred.A. Knopf

Victor Gollancz

Cuentos Latinoamericanos

Sagebrush Education Resources

Set in Cuba at the time of the French Revolution, this novel aims to capture the immense changes sweeping the Caribbean at the turn of the 19th century - complete with its wars, sea-life and people. The author - who was amongst the first to use "magic realism" - has also written "The Chase".

Contemporary

Minerva

Siglo de las Luces

CARPENTIER, Alejo

French & European Pubns

Provides a fictional study of the myth, morality, and historical legacy of Christopher Columbus and his arrival in the New World

The Harp and the Shadow: The Beatification of Christopher Columbus: A Novel

Mercury House, Inc.

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