Juan Bosch is considered a master of the Dominican short story, a literary genre that has had few writers in the Spanish language. When Bosch returned from a long exile in 1961, few Dominicans knew that the political leader was also considered to be one for the luminaries of the short story genre, and that some of his short stories had been translated to many other languages. After returning from exile a compilation of stories written during his exile was published in the Dominican Republic, and read for the first time in the country.