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The Kingdom of This World (Spanish: El reino de este mundo) is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957. A work of historical fiction , it tells the story of Haiti before, during, and after the Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint Louverture , as seen by its ...
May 16, 2006 · Paperback – May 16, 2006. by Alejo Carpentier (Author), Harriet de Onís (Translator), Edwidge Danticat (Introduction) 4.6 182 ratings. See all formats and editions.
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Alejo Carpentier, Harriet de Onís (Translator) 3.77. 6,900 ratings686 reviews. 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.
Jul 30, 2023 · The Kingdom of This World, the second novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier (1904–80), deals with the events surrounding the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804). The novel is divided into four sections, each of which chronicles an important stage in the country’s independence movement.
The Kingdom of This World is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957.
May 16, 2006 · Alejo Carpentier. Macmillan, May 16, 2006 - Fiction - 180 pages. A few years after its liberation from the brutality of French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of even greater...
"The Kingdom of This World (1949) deals with the period of Henri Christophe and the slave revolts in Haiti. Its circular structure presents the inevitable recurrence of tyranny and the...
