Author: Alejo Carpentier
- Fiction
- Lectorum; Primera edicion edition
- ISBN: 9789707321465
- Release Date: 01-01-1970
-Reviewed by: America Reads Spanish

Internationally acclaimed writer Alejo Carpentier gives us this telling of the story of a dictator of an unnamed country in Latin America (could be Cuba, Dominican Republic, Paraguay) and how he deals with conspiracies, a student uprising engineered by the communists, and denies the subjugated peasantry of even their humble status in his society.