A phantasmagoric portrait of an unnamed Latin American dictatorship, tracing a single week of terror and paranoia through the intertwined fates of a beggar, a general's daughter, and the tyrant's favorite, Angel Face. Written by future Nobel laureate Miguel Ángel Asturias, it is considered a foundational work of the Latin American dictator novel and magical realism.
Books mentioned in Mr. President (2)
A Thousand and One Nights: “"a candy straight from A Thousand and One Nights and a little black rubber ball" (dream sequence)”
Églogas by Garcilaso de la Vega: “A priest recites Garcilaso's verses on meeting Camila, evoking Albanio's lover of the same name in Égloga II: "Nature only once wanted to make / A woman as beautiful as this / Breaking the mold, for beauty's sake"”