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kittiwakeThis is a wonderful novel about the assassination of the Dominican Republic's leader, Rafael Trujillo in 1961, told from the point of view of Trujillo himself, as well as some of the assassins and other people involved in the plot. It covers the weeks leading up to the assassination, and the aftermath as Trujillo's son leads the hunt to track down his father's killers, while behind the scene the Dominican president and the Americans are scheming to get rid of the Trujillo family and bring democracy to the country.
It didn't really need the framing story of the fictional Urania Cabral, who left the island aged fourteen and never spoke to her family again, before returning thirty-five years later to confront her demons.
Before reading this book I didn't know anything about the Trujillo era, which ended before I was born. Although I've read "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" which is about a family who had to leave the Dominican Republic for political reasons, the story didn't go into detail about the political situation.
Nottingham Round the World Reading Challenge - DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
It didn't really need the framing story of the fictional Urania Cabral, who left the island aged fourteen and never spoke to her family again, before returning thirty-five years later to confront her demons.
Before reading this book I didn't know anything about the Trujillo era, which ended before I was born. Although I've read "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" which is about a family who had to leave the Dominican Republic for political reasons, the story didn't go into detail about the political situation.
