A review by whothehelliskaitlin
The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

3.0

Read this a few months ago. I enjoyed the magical realism aspects of the novel and the way that they were used to tell the history of Haiti through the people's eyes rather than through the West's eyes. The writing was a little hard to follow sometimes as it would jump to a different subject unexpectedly and it often required background knowledge about certain topics but that is not a major issue when reading a book based in history as you probably won't know all off the facts or events. A good book to read if you want to know the history around the slave rebellion in Haiti and the events immediately before and after it.