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Review title: Quality inventive journalism, prolix to a fault
Product review: The story of a manipulative dictator is told here from both sides, showing us the terror and the stability that a man like Trujillo (or even Saddam Hussein or Josef Stalin) brings to a nation with fundamental fractures in its culture and people. Vargas Llosa introduces his characters and the topic so subtly that it seems to grow around the reader, marking a path for descent. Insights about government and people abound. While all of it is well written, there doesn't need to be as much of it as there is, and it doesn't need to be as strikingly "emotional" (translation: obvious). Any more of that and it would become a coffee table book for hand-wringing pill cases. As it is however, it is well-written and an engrossing exploration of this topic without the usual moralizing that makes such books as tedious as a root canal.
