Explosion in a Cathedral - Alejo Carpentier to crime and thrillers

to crime and thrillers

Translator: Frank Wynne

the other as his wife

Napoleon and Lord Byron - this is an epic historical novel that tells the remarkable and inseparable stories of one man's life and the history of Italy's unification

his arrival in Heaven

Explosion in a Cathedral - Alejo Carpentier to crime and thrillersWhen 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 desire for bloodshed. Landing at the Havana doorstep of three wealthy Creole adolescent orphans, he leads them across the Caribbean Sea to Guadeloupe, into the midst of the immense changes sweeping the world outside their life in Havana. As Victor's