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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780143133889 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
863.6 |
| Item number |
CAR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Carpentier, Alejo |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Explosion in a cathedral |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Classics, |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
1971. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxii, 311 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
19 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
1099.00 |
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₹ |
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01 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Penguin Classics |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Historical fiction |
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Spanish Literature |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Magical Realism |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
West, Adrian Nathan |
| Relator term |
tr. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
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| Item type |
Books |