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020			_a9780143133889
082			_a863.6 _bCAR
100			_aCarpentier, Alejo
245			_aExplosion in a cathedral
260			_bPenguin Classics, _aNew York : _c1971.
300			_axxii, 311 p. ; _c19 cm.
365			_b1099.00 _c₹ _d01
490			_aPenguin Classics
520			_aOne 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			_aHistorical fiction
650			_aSpanish Literature
650			_aMagical Realism
700			_aWest, Adrian Nathan _etr.
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