Alejo Carpentier, Author, Thomas Christensen, Translator, Carol Christensen, Translator Mercury House $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-916515-71-3
This posthumous work by the influential Cuban writer does not have the scale of either The Lost Steps or Explosion in a Cathedral , but its baroque subject matter, languid, introspective prose and pointed irony show why the author is often...
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Alejo Carpentier, Author, Thomas Christensen, Translator, Carol Christensen, Translator Mercury House $14.95 (176p) ISBN 978-1-56279-024-0
Although this book about Christopher Columbus lacks the scale of The Lost Steps , its introspective prose and pointed irony show why Cuban writer Carpentier is often considered the father of magical realism. (Apr.)
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Alejo Carpentier, Author, Asa Zatz, Translator Council Oak Books $7.95 (135p) ISBN 978-0-933031-12-8
An 18th century nameless Mexican nobleman and his Cuban servant, Filomeno, journey from the New World to the Old. In Venice, dazzled by and invigorated with the enchantment of the Christmas carnival, the pair encounters a trio of revelers who turn...
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Alejo Carpentier, Author, Alfred J. Mac Adam, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $16.95 (122p) ISBN 978-0-374-12083-2
Written in 1956, this gem by a renowned Cuban novelist ( The Kingdom of This World ; The Lost Steps ) is considered by many to be an esthetic watershed in Latin American fiction. Untranslated until now, it most clearly shows his method: a...
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