The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

The Kingdom of This World

Alejo Carpentier with Edwidge Danticat, Harriet de Onís

180 pages • first pub 1949 (editions)

fiction historical magical realism hopeful informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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