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The 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 Cristóbal, Dominican Republic. 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.
“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