Author: Alejo Carpentier
- Fiction
- Lectorum, Sa de CV  
- ISBN: 9789707320024
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: Fernando Velázquez Medina

One of the most important novels of Latin American literature of all times, it synthesizes the styles and themes of this distinguished author, one of the most ingenious writers in Western literature. Received an award for best foreign novel published in France in 1956.