02903cam a2200397 i 4500 365187753 TxAuBib 20181219120000.0 170428s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017001320 9780374537388 15.00 0374537380 15.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda eng spa Carpentier, Alejo, 1904-1980. Reino de este mundo English. The kingdom of this world [BOOK] / Alejo Carpentier ; translated from the Spanish by Pablo Medina. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017. ©2017. xx, 136 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Originally published in Spanish in 1949 by E.D.I.A.P.S.A., Mexico, D.F., as El Reino de Este Mundo ' -- Verso title page. A translation by Harriet de Onís was published by Farrrar, Straus and Giroux in 1989, and reissued in 2006. Wax heads -- The pruning -- What the hand discovered -- The account -- De profundis -- The metamorphosis -- In human dress -- The great flight -- The daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë -- The great covenant -- The call of the conch shells -- Dagon inside the Ark -- Santiago de Cuba -- The ship of dogs -- Saint Calamity -- The signs -- Sans-soucci -- The sacrifice of the bulls -- Walled in -- Chronicle of august fifteenth -- Ultima Ratio Regum -- The only gate -- The night of the statues -- The royal house -- The surveyors -- Agnus Dei. After its liberation from harsh French rule in 1803, Haiti endured a period of great brutality under Henri Christophe, who was born a slave but rose to become the first black king in the Western Hemisphere. In this unnerving novel, Henri Christophe's oppressive rule is observed through the eyes of the elderly slave Ti Noël. Ranging across the country, searching for true liberation, Ti Noël finds himself confronted with bloody revolutions, maniacal rulers, and the mysterious power of voodoo magic. The Kingdom of this World is widely recognized as a masterpiece of Cuban and Caribbean literature. Pablo Medina's remarkable new translation renders the dreamlike prose of Alejo Carpentier with nuance and felicity while delivering anew a powerful, visionary, and singularly twisted novel about the birth of modern Haiti: a tale of race, erotomania, mysticism, and madness. 20181219. Spanish fiction Translations into English. Vodou Haiti Fiction. Slavery Haiti Fiction. Haiti History Revolution, 1791-1804 Fiction. Historical fiction. Medina, Pablo, 1948-