The Kingdom of This World: A Novel FSG Classics Author Alejo Carpentier Translated by Harriet de Onís Contributor Edwidge Danticat Edition reprint Publisher Macmillan, 2006 ISBN 0374530114, 9780374530112 Length Subjects In the prologue to this work, Carpentier expounds on magic realism, which he defines as the representation of “marvelous American reality.” His novel Los pasos perdidos (1953; The Lost Steps), his best-known work, is… Kingdom of This World Download to read, because it contains a lot of positive things in this book. Kingdom of this world. The Kingdom of This World book. An infinite grid of text editable by anyone. This is a recreation of YourWorldOfText from scratch. Read 396 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. therefore PDF The Kingdom of This World ePub there's always something to read every day until at bookstores always have sold out every time this book comes. Alejo Carpentier’s foundational Latin American text, The Kingdom of This World, is of critical importance in part because of its historical account of the Haitian Revolution. A few years after its liberation from French colonialist... El reino de este mundo = The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier The Kingdom of This World is a novel by Cuban author Alejo Carpentier, published in 1949 in his native Spanish and first translated into English in 1957. Other articles where The Kingdom of This World is discussed: Alejo Carpentier: …reino de este mundo (1950; The Kingdom of This World); it is about the Haitian revolution. Carpentier Haiti Part I Part II Part III Part IV Email Home Earthquake The purpose of this website is to try and help to you understand the themes and concepts that are discussed in the novel The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier, by providing some background information and context for the people, places, and events mentioned in the text. New York, Knopf, 1957 (DLC) 57005661 (OCoLC)3163819 Material Type: Document, Fiction, Internet Genre/Form: Fiction History Additional Physical Format: Print version: Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980.