Alejo Carpentier

¡Écue-Yamba-ó! is Alejo Carpentier's first novel, narrating the life of the Cuban Menegildo Cue in the early years of the 20th century. Although it has often been categorized as part of the broader genre known as "Afro-Cuban novel," the truth is that this work is one of the most influential within its genre and highly revealing in Carpentier's production. With an essentially folkloric content, it is brimming with symbols and rituals related to the mysteries of Afro-Cuban religious beliefs.

It is a fundamental work for understanding the Cuban reality of the beginning of the past century, Carpentier himself, and a cornerstone within Hispanic-American literature.