The kingdom of this world
by Alejo Carpentier
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xx, 136 pages ; 21 cm
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History, Fiction, Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804) fast (OCoLC)fst01354524, Haiti, fiction, Fiction, historical, Fiction, war & military, Romance literature, Fiction, historical, general, Spanish language, Spanish language books, Historia, Ficción, Spanish language materials, Novela cubana, LIteratura cubana, Slavery, Esclavitud, Revolution, 1791-1804, Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804 -- Fiction, Revolution (haiti : 1791-1804), Pq7389.c263 r413 2017, 863/.64, Spanish literaturePlaces
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The kingdom of this world
2017, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
May 16, 2006, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Translation from the Spanish of: El reino de este mundo.
A translation by Harriet de Onís was published by Farrrar, Straus and Giroux in 1989, and reissued in 2006.
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A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater brutality under the reign of King Henri-Christophe, who was born a slave in Grenada but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.
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