| Summary: | The kingdom of this world is a novel published in 1949 by the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier whose main theme, the wonderful real, is framed in the Haitian Revolution. In this novel, widely accepted by critics and now part of the academic canon, the reader is introduced, through the eyes of a slave, into the fascinating atmosphere of a Haiti in search of independence, a world of passions that unfold amid the fierce caricature of the extraordinary luxuries of the Bonapartist court. Pioneering novel of magical realism, in an America where magic is everyday and real
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