Title: X-ray of a dictatorship
Review: An X-ray into a dictatorship that all of Latin America is talking about.What can be said about "La Fiesta del Chivo"? For starters, it is my favorite novel. One of the biggest complements I heard was by a Dominican friend who said he could not believe the author was not from the Dominican Republic. The Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa captures the Dominican culture, humour, expressions, and history in an incredible way.Vargas Llosa takes us back in time to the last days of the Trujillo regime and slowly opens our eyes to the horrors of the Era. I strongly recommend this book to anyone; especially those interested in Latin America, human rights, and the struggle for democracy. Vargas Llosa put it best when he said, "literature is fire".One final note, Dr. Balaguer has to be one of the most interesting "fictional" characters since Mario Puzo's Godfather.
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