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Explosion in a Cathedral

By Alejo Carpentier, Adrian Nathan West (Translator), Alejandro Zambra (Foreword by)
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By Alejo Carpentier, Adrian Nathan West (Translator), Alejandro Zambra (Foreword by)
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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 Books

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

A Penguin Classic

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FictionLiteratureWorld FictionCaribbean FictionLatin American FictionCuban FictionRevolutions/Revolutionaries - Latin American FictionClassics of Latin American FictionLatin American - MenBoom and Its Precursors (1940s-1960s) - Latin American Fiction