- Paperback: 186 pages
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc (Dec 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0374521972
- ISBN-13: 978-0374521974
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 465,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An imaginative interpretation of the early history of Haiti: it's stylistically more pared down than Carpentier's other works and comparatively modest in length; both of which features lend the book to educational contexts for the wrong reason. Curiously the historical foundations have dated the book (modern histories take a different view of many of the underpinning events) and since the treatment is far less novelistic than the same author's 'An Explosion in a Cathedral' this matters more than it should. Of course it's good - Carpentier is a great writer - but it doesn't stun like 'The Lost Steps'.
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Required to read this book on my University Spanish course and enjoyed the book immensely. Gives you quite a feel for Haiti and their past history and the voodoo withcraft beliefs of the natives.
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Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist and essay writer and musicologist whose second novel - El Reino de este Mundo - was first published in Mexico in 1949 and tells the story from the point of view of an Haitian slave (Ti Noël) in the period before, during, and after the bloody revolution when Haitian blacks won independence from French colonial rule under the mad King, Jean-Christophe.
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