Results for "Carpentier, Alejo"

“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksOne of Cuba’s—and Latin America’s—greatest historical novels, about im... Read More about Explosion in a Cathedral

“If Carpentier is ever to get a new reading in English, it should be now. . . . West’s translations . . . reintroduce English-language readers to this giant of Latin American fiction.” —Natasha Wimmer, The New York Review of BooksThe best-known book by Cuba’s most important twentieth-century novelis... Read More about The Lost Steps

A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century HaitiA few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the... Read More about The Kingdom of This World: A Novel (FSG Classics)

“Hace dos días que andamos sobre el armazón del planeta, olvidados de la Historia y hasta de las oscuras migraciones de las eras sin crónicas. […] Lo que se abre ante nuestros ojos es el mundo anterior al hombre.”Huyendo de una existencia vacía y rutinaria en la ciudad de Nueva York, un compositor v... Read More about Los pasos perdidos / The Lost Steps

Buscar la utopia es querer encontrar el paraiso, y viceversa. Alejo Carpentier lo intent por medio de un riquisimo lenguaje, de la naturaleza exuberante. Los pasos perdidos es un descenso a las raices, una traves a cargada de's mbolos y de un a ancestral tradici n cultural. Esta novela, escrita nar... Read More about Los pasos perdidos

One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist—to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a nov... Read More about Reasons of State (Neversink)