The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

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The Kingdom of This World tells the story of Ti Noël and the political turmoil in Haiti following the French colonial days. Ti Noël is a slave on a plantation in northern Haiti, then known as Santo Domingo. He participates in a rebellion against the French colonists. When his master flees to Cuba, Ti Noël is taken along and lost in a card game to a Cuban plantation...

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The Kingdom of This World

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The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier Alejo Carpentier was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1904, two years after his mother, a Russian pianist and language teacher, and his father, an architect fr... Read more

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Biography EssayAlejo Carpentier, a major Latin-American novelist with a dense, allusive style that has influenced other writers, was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 26 December 1904, St. Stephen's D... Read more

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Alejo Carpentier, a major Latin-American novelist with a dense, allusive style that has influenced other writers, was born in Havana on 26 December 1904, St. Stephen's Day. His father, Georges, an arc... Read more

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