Alejo Carpentier

El viaje a la semilla de la mano de Carpentier es un recorrido a los orígenes, un camino de ida y vuelta por el laberinto de las palabras a través de la vida. Muerte y nacimiento se nos muestran como dos caras de la misma realidad de la que somos parte.

"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....