The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

The Kingdom of This World

Alejo Carpentier with Harriet de Onís

186 pages • paperback • 1949

31 editions

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A few years after its liberation from French colonialist rule, Haiti experienced a period of unsurpassed brutality, horror, and superstition under the reign of the black King Henri-Christophe. Through the eyes of the ancient slave Ti-Noel, The Kin...

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