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OverviewThe turbulent life story of Flor de Oro Trujillo, the eldest child of one of the world's most brutal dictators. Flor de Oro was born in 1915 in San Crist�bal, Dominican Repulic. Her father rose from small-time gangster to dictator and ruthlessly ruled the country for three decades until his assassination in 1961. El Jefe controlled his daughter with the same tight grip with which he ruled the country. It is a toxic love and Flor will fight all her life to free herself from her father's yoke. A father she both loves and loathes. Flor's journey includes nine marriages and many exiles which take her to France, Nazi Germany, and the United States. Flor's life is a story of abuse, and struggles, and mistakes. It is a life story worthy of a novel. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Catherine Bardon , Tina KoverPublisher: Europa Editions Imprint: Europa Editions Dimensions: Width: 14.20cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 21.10cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9798889660453Publication Date: 17 September 2024 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviews"""The story of the dictator's daughter is also the very universal one of a woman who, for her entire life, has been seeking love.""--L'Avenir ""Catherine Bardon has a knack for portraiture and the art of blending the narrative of an individual destiny within the whirlwind of collective human adventures. The Ogre's Daugther is an extraordinary novel, without artifice, surgically percise, gut-wrenching and moving.""--La Provence ""An hymn to the desire for freedom of a woman with an imprisoned destiny.""--Télé Loisir ""It is impossible not to come out moved from reading this novel, which brings this extroardinary woman out from the shadow and into the light.""--Le Journal du Centre" Author InformationCatherine Bardon is a French writer who divides her time between France and the Dominican Republic. She is the author of Les Deracines, which has sold over 600,000 copies and won numerous awards. The Ogre's Daughter is her first novel to be translated into English. Tina Kover's translations for Europa Editions include Anne Berest's The Postcard, Antoine Compagnon's A Summer with Montaigne, and N�gar Djavadi's Disoriental, winner of the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award, and a finalist for both the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the PEN Translation Prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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