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The Kingdom of This World: A Novel (FSG Classics) (1st Edition) by Alejo Carpentier, Edwidge Danticat (Introduction), Harriet De Onís (Translator) Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-374-53011-4 / 0374530114 ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53011-2 / 9780374530112 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 dreamli |