Author: Alejo Carpentier
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374530114
Size: 31.93 MB
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In this orgy of voodoo, race hatred, madness, and erotomania, Alejo Carpentier records the destruction of King Henri Christophe's black regime, which was built on the same corruption and contempt for human life that brought down French rule while embodying its same hollow grandeur of false elegance attained only through slave labor.