Category
page 1Novels set in the Dominican Republic
Treasure Island
1883 novel by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson
The Feast of the Goat
book by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
novel by Junot Díaz
In the Time of the Butterflies
historical novel by Julia Álvarez (1994)
Galíndez
Galíndez is a novel by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, published in 1990. It centres on a real, dramatic and dark episode of the history of the Dominican Republic: the kidnapping, torturing and murdering of Jesús de Galíndez in 1956, representative of the Basque government in exile before the U.S. State Department and the involvement and cover-up by the CIA. The novel received Spain's National Literary Award in 1991 and the Europa Prize.