{"product_id":"reasons-of-state-book-alejo-carpentier-9780394499093","title":"Reasons of State","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne 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. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early 1970s, friends Gabriel Garc a M rquez, 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. Garc a M rquez went on to write \u003ci\u003eThe Autumn of the Patriarch\u003c\/i\u003e and Roa Bastos \u003ci\u003eI, the Supreme\u003c\/i\u003e. The third novel in this remarkable trinity is \u003ci\u003eReasons of State\u003c\/i\u003e, hailed as\u003cbr\u003ethe most significant novel ever to come out of Cuba. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs with Garcia Marquez, \u003ci\u003eReasons of State\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold story, boldly told --- daring in its perceptions, rich in lush detail, inventive in prose, and deadly compelling in its suspenseful plot. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInexplicably out of print for years, it tells the tale of the dictator of an unnamed Latin American country who has been living the life of luxury in high-society Paris. When news reaches him of a coup at home, he rushes back and crushes it with brutal military force. But returning to Paris he is given a chilly welcome, and learns that photographs of the atrocities have been circulating\u003cbr\u003eamong his well-to-do friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeanwhile World War One has broken out, and another rebellion forces the dictator back across the ocean. As he struggles with the Marxist forces beginning to find footing in his own country, and Europe is devastated, Carpentier constructs a masterful and biting satire of the new world order.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50169761136913,"sku":"CIN0394499093G","price":31.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0394499093.jpg?v=1750942508","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/reasons-of-state-book-alejo-carpentier-9780394499093","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}