Book · 1949 · Fiction
The Kingdom of This World
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Macmillan) · 136 pages
★ 6.2 editorial score
Carpentier's preface named the marvelous real: Latin American history already outruns anything the surrealists could invent. He proves it across the Haitian Revolution, watched from below by an enslaved man named Ti Noel.
