Reasons of State

Alejo Carpentier

Original title: Recurso del método

earliest edition we have, 1976 Knopf, 1976 308 pages

This novel 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 among his well-to-do friends. Meanwhile World War One has b...

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Die Methode der Macht edition · 1989 · Suhrkamp Verlag · 389 pages
Reasons of State paperback · 1981 · Writers & Readers · 311 pages · 9780904613520
Reasons of state edition · 1976 · Gollancz · 311 pages
Reasons of state edition · 1976 · Knopf · 308 pages

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