Alejo Carpentier

En estas páginas, Alejo Carpentier, uno de los mejores escritores latinoamericanos, nos relata, entre otras muchas cosas, su nacimiento, su infancia, su viaje a Europa en compañía de sus padres, su vida en fincas suburbanas, sus fuertes y continuos ataques de asma, su entrada en la Universidad de La Habana para iniciar estudios de arquitectura, su amor por la letra escrita, sus primeros intentos literarios, su entrada al periodismo, su vinculación...

El relato histórico de Alejo Carpentier "El Camino de Santiago" narra la historia de un soldado español del siglo XVI, Juan, que emprende una peregrinación a Santiago de Compostela. A partir de Amberes, en el insurgente Flandes, pierde su camino y llega finalmente a Sevilla y América, donde su destino será cumplido.

A composer, fleeing an empty existence in New York City, takes a journey to the land of his childhood in search of primitive musical instruments.

"Dissatisfied with his empty, Sisyphus-like existence in New York City, where he has abandoned his creative dreams for a job in corporate advertising, a highly cultured aspiring composer wants nothing more than to tear his life up from the root. He soon finds his escape hatch: a university-sponsored mission to South America to look for indigenous musical instruments in one of the few areas of the world not yet touched by civilization. Retracing the...

"One of Cuba's-and Latin America's-greatest historical novels, about imperial conquest carried out under the guise of liberation, in its first new English translation in sixty years and featuring a new foreword by Alejandro Zambra. When 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 bloodlust. Landing...