โ Paul Walker
๐ Fiction
๐
2019
๐ Sharpe Books
๐ English
โ 167 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Reasons of State
โ Scribed by Alejo Carpentier
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 243 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
**One of the most significant novels in Latin American literature, written by Cuba's most important modern novelist--to win a bet with Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
**
In the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Augusto Roa Bastos and Alejo Carpentier reached a joint decision: they would each write a novel about the dictatorships then wreaking misery in Latin America. Garcia Marquez went on to write The Autumn of the Patriarch and Roa Bastos I, the Supreme. The third novel in this remarkable trinity is Reasons of State , hailed as
the most significant novel ever to come out of Cuba.
As with Garcia Marquez, Reasons of State is a bold story, boldly told --- daring in its perceptions, rich in lush detail, inventive in prose, and deadly compelling in its suspenseful plot.
Inexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the dictator of an unnamed Latin American country who has been living...
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