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Explosion In A Cathedral

Alejo Carpentier

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1962
Originally in
Originally in Spanish
Pages
Pages 350

A charismatic Frenchman arrives in Havana with a strange machine and revolutionary ideas, sweeping young cousins into the Caribbean's turn from liberty to terror, as the freedom he preached curdles into a tyranny that restores slavery.

Last night, I saw the Machine rise up again.
Explosion In A Cathedral, Alejo Carpentier

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