Explosion in a Cathedral

Name: Explosion in a Cathedral
Author: Alejo Carpentier

1963

Set in 3 places · 2 primary

Sense of Place

5/5

Set in

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Havana · Cuba
18th-century Havana; origin of the Creole orphan trio swept into the Caribbean whirlwind of Victor Hugues and the French
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Guadeloupe · France
French Caribbean colony; central setting of Victor Hugues's revolutionary terror and slave liberation — then re-enslavem
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Guadeloupe · Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe where Victor Hugues leads the naval assault to retake the island from the English, bringing the guillotine an