Alejo Carpentier was one of the greatest Latin American novelists of the twentieth century, as well as a musicologist, journalist, cultural promoter, and diplomat. His fictional world issues from an encyclopedic knowledge of the history, art, music, and literature of Latin America and Europe. Carpen[...]

A swashbuckling tale set in the the Caribbean world at the time of the French revolution, Explosion in a Cathedral focuses on Victor Hugues, a historical figure who led the naval assault to take back the island of Guadeloupe from the English at the beginning of the nineteenth century. In Carpentier'[...]

Haiti vid slutet av 1700-talet. Landet lider under fransk kolonialism och slavtyranni. Men med influenser från den franska revolutionen och omvärldens framväxande kritik av slaveriet inleds ett uppror. Genom slaven Ti Noëls ögon får vi följa Haitits utveckling under tiden före, under och eft[...]