A review by jake_
The Kingdom of this World by Alejo Carpentier, Harriet de Onís

challenging dark slow-paced

4.25

This is the second Carpentier I've read, and like the other, Explosions in a Cathedral, the themes are heavy and should give the novel gravitas, but much of the plot's weight is obscured beneath a baroque prose style interested in tangents and lists of specific details. This is a prose style I like, but for many this novel could be underwhelming given the premise, a very Latin American magical realist telling of the Haitian Revolution.