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The Kingdom of This World

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ISBN13: 9780374521974
ISBN10: 0374521972
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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 Kingdom of This World records the destruction of the black regime--built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French--in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, erotomania, and fantastic grandeurs of false elegance.

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Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana in 1904. He lived for many years in France and Venezuela but returned to Cuba after the revolution. One of the major Latin American writers of this century, he is the author of The Lost Steps, Explosion in a Cathedral, and The Chase. He died in Paris in 1980.

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ISBN:
9780374521974
Subtitle:
A Novel
Translator:
De Onis, Harriet
Translator:
de Onis, Harriet
Author:
Carpentier, Alejo
Author:
De Onis, Harriet
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Location:
New York
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
History
Subject:
Historical - General
Subject:
Haiti
Edition Number:
1
Series Volume:
no. 00-4754
Publication Date:
19890901
Binding:
TP
Language:
English
Pages:
190
Dimensions:
8.20x5.48x.52 in. .47 lbs.
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