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Description edit
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Characters/People edit
- Mouche: the composer’s uncompromising, conceited, female companion
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- Ruth: the wife
- Rosario: The soul of Nature, essence of womanhood
- Fray Pedro de Henestrosa: Capuchin
- Yannes
- Adelantado
- Marcos: Adelantado's half breed son
First Sentence edit
Four Years and seven months had passed since I had seen the white-pillared house, with the austere pediment that gave it the severity of a courthouse; now, among the furniture and decorations, whose positions never varied, I had the distressing sensation that time had turned back.
Glossary edit
- Adagio: played slowly
- allegretto: little lowly-moderate
- habaneras: Cuban dance
- reredos: screen or decoration behind the alter
- Chantey: a song with alternating solo and chorus, orignally sung by sailors while laboring
- theorbos: large stringed instrument, similar to a lute
- Sackbut: trombone like insturment
Series & Lists edit
This book is in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Alejo Carpentier (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: Spanish
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Publication Date: 1953
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Publication Date: 1953
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- Dewey: 863.64
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