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Biblioteca Carpentier - 196: El reino de este mundo - El libro de bolsillo - Bibliotecas de autor

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<p>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 prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime—built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor—in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.</p>

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Biblioteca Carpentier - 196: El reino de este mundo - El libro de bolsillo - Bibliotecas de autor, Alejo Carpentier

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Biblioteca Carpentier - 196: El reino de este mundo - El libro de bolsillo - Bibliotecas de autor
Language
Spanish
Released
2004
Format
Paperback
Pages
160
ISBN10
8420655503
ISBN13
9788420655505
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<p>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 prose of often dreamlike coloration and intensity, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of the black regime—built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down the French while embodying the same hollow grandeur of false elegance, attained only through slave labor—in an orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania.</p>