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Aug 18, 2019
Pamela
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Powerful and compelling account of the bloody end of Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. This novel has three connected plot strands : first, the story of Urania Cabral, daughter of a disgraced official in Trujillo's government who returns to the Dominican Republic in the 1990s after over 30 years in the US; second, the story of the assassins as they plan and execute their dangerous plan, and finally, the thoughts of Trujillo himself as he goes through the events of what will be t
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As you might expect, this does not make for easy reading and the scenes of violence and terror after Trujillo's assassination were particularly upsetting. The tale is told in three strands - one from the point of view of Urania, who has returned to the Dominican Republic many years after her 1961 flight to the United States; one from the point of view of the group of men who carried out the assassination (firstly while they wait for Trujillo to drive by and then after the event) and finally, fro
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After reading and loving Llosa's War of the End of the World, I was excited to read his take on Trujillo's Dominican Republic, but I was somewhat disappointed. The book takes a long time to build up to Trujillo's assasignation (do historical events count as spoilers?), and I found the first part of the book dry and slow. The second half is however much more fast-paced and engrossing. I was also surprised that most, if not all, of the main characters are either part of Trujillo's inner circle (or
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Dec 25, 2008
Erika
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Meghan
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Lise Petrauskas
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Karen Michele Burns
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