The Kingdom of This World

Magical Realism

Author: Alejo Carpentier

The Kingdom of This World packs literary dynamite. There can be no disputing the fact [that] Carpentier is equipped with an elegant perception and a distinctive style.,—San Francisco Chronicle,,”Magical realism … lives and thrives in past and present Haiti, just as it does in this novel. It is in the extraordinary and the mundane, the beautiful and the repulsive, the spok….Read More
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