Explosion in a Cathedral (First American Edition)

Alejo Carpentier

Published by Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1963

About this Item

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. First American edition. First printing. Hardbound. Fine in a fine jacket. A clean, tight copy. Publisher's price intact on front jacket flap ($5.95). Comes with archival-quality mylar jacket protector. Smoke-free. Octavo, 351 pages. Translated from the Spanish by John Sturrock. Originally published as El siglo de las luces, this novel follows three Cuban orphans drawn into the upheaval of the French Revolution by a charismatic emissary. It was Carpentier s sixth novel and stands alongside "The Kingdom of This World" and "The Lost Steps" as a major work of historical fiction in his career; it won the Prix Médicis étranger in 1977.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Explosion in a Cathedral (First American Edition)
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine