KINGDOM OF THIS WORLD
FSG Classics
A masterful new translation of a haunting novel of nineteenth-century HaitiA few years after its liberation from harsh French colonial rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under the reign of King Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving novel from one of Cuba's most celebrated authors, Henri Christophe's oppressive rule is observed through the eyes of the elderly slave Ti Noël, who suffers abuse from masters both white and black. As he ranges across the country searching for true liberation, Ti Noël navigates bloody revolutions, maniacal rule…
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Weitere Autoren: Danticat, Edwidge (Solist) / Medina, Pablo (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-374-53738-8
- EAN: 9780374537388
- Produktnummer: 22193617
- Verlag: Macmillan USA
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.5 cm 150 g
- Gewicht: 150
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Alejo Carpentier; Translated from the Spanish by Pablo Medina; Introduction by Edwidge Danticat
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