The Kingdom of this World

✍ Carpentier, Alejo 📂 Fiction 📅 1994 🏛 Noonday Press 🌐 English ⚖ 152 KB

"The unevenly clustered historical conditions of the Caribbean nations bind us to the revival and redefinition of the ideals of unification begotten by 19th Century Puerto Rican thinkers. Coleccion Caribena is intended to build connection points that will enable the exchange of ideas, languages and

The Kingdom of This World

✍ Carpentier, Alejo 📂 Fiction 📅 1994 🏛 Noonday Press 🌐 English ⚖ 152 KB

"The unevenly clustered historical conditions of the Caribbean nations bind us to the revival and redefinition of the ideals of unification begotten by 19th Century Puerto Rican thinkers. Coleccion Caribena is intended to build connection points that will enable the exchange of ideas, languages and

The Kingdom of This World

✍ Carpentier, Alejo 📂 Fiction 📅 1994 🏛 Noonday Press 🌐 English ⚖ 152 KB

"The unevenly clustered historical conditions of the Caribbean nations bind us to the revival and redefinition of the ideals of unification begotten by 19th Century Puerto Rican thinkers. Coleccion Caribena is intended to build connection points that will enable the exchange of ideas, languages and

The Kingdom of This World: A Novel

✍ Alejo Carpentier; Harriet de Onis (transl.); Edwidge Danticat (introd.) 📂 Fiction 📅 2006 🏛 Farrar, Straus and Giroux 🌐 English ⚖ 7 MB

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

The Weight of This World

✍ Joy, David 📂 Fiction 📅 2017 🏛 Penguin Publishing Group 🌐 en-US ⚖ 696 KB

**Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut,_Where All Light Tends to Go_ , was hailed as "a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature" (_The Huffington Post_), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful stor

This Time The World

✍ Rockwell, George Lincoln 📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 2 MB