I came across this author and book looking for books written by Guatemalan authors for #Guatemala #foodandlit. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1967 so I thought the library would have books by him. In was the blurb to this book, originally written in 1946, that pulled me in. The blurbs says it was a satire about a ruthless dictator. I never pick it satire but it‘s definitely about a dictator and people around him and the people that is