by Alejo Carpentier · Alianza Editorial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420673301
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«Écue-Yamba-Ó» is the first novel by Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (216 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the sugar mills of Cuba at the beginning of the 20th century, it follows Menegildo Cue, a young Afro-Cuban whose life reflects the marginalisation of black workers. The novel combines naturalism and avant-gardism, with echoes of French surrealism, and weaves Afro-Cuban rituals and beliefs into everyday life.
Volume 195 of the collection 'El libro de bolsillo - Bibliotecas de autor - Biblioteca Carpentier'. The novel was originally published in 1933.
For readers of classic Latin American fiction and historical fiction about Cuban society.
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, of French and Russian parentage, Carpentier grew up in Havana, Cuba, and despite his European birthplace, he strongly identified as Cuban throughout his life. He traveled extensively, particularly in France, and to South America and Mexico, where he met prominent members of the Latin American cultural and artistic community. Carpentier took a keen interest in Latin American politics and often aligned himself with revolutionary movements, such as Fidel Castro's Communist Revolution in Cuba in the mid-20th century. Carpentier was jailed and exiled for his leftist political philosophies.
