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A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century Haiti

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... Read Full Overview

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... Read Full Overview

Una de las obras maestras del escritor cubano, El reino de este mundo narra, a trav s de la voz del esclavo negro Ti No l, el tr nsito que sufri Hait al pasar a convertirse, de colonia francesa gobernada por blancos, en una naci n negra regida por el primer monarca coronado del... Read Full Overview

Deshacer y rehacer la historia, mudada en ficci n, era la manera propia de Carpentier de inventar historias. Mario Vargas Llosa

El reino de este mundo es un alucinante relato en la improvisada corte real haitiana de Henri... Read Full Overview