Reasons of State by Alejo Carpentier

Reasons of State

Alejo Carpentier

311 pages first pub 1974 (editions)

fiction literary reflective slow-paced
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Reasons of State opens in Paris just before the outbreak of World War I. There, a plump Latin American head of state enjoys the city's pleasures, both carnal and aesthetic. A telegram announcing a coup calls him home to a radically different lands...

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