Alejo Carpentier

• Oct-2013
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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 C...

• Apr-2006
• / General Fiction
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A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king...

• Mar-2001
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“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...

• Oct-1995
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• Sep-1990
• / General Fiction
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Perhaps Cuba's most important intellectual figure of the twentieth century, Alejo Carpentier (1904-1980) was a novelist, a classically trained pianist and musicologist, a producer of avant-garde radio programming, and an influential theorist of polit...

• Jul-1967
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“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-kn...