The Feast of the Goat

✍ Scribed by Mario Vargas Llosa

• Publisher: Picador; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 280 KB
• Edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011)
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1429921781

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 404 pages
Published: 2000
Edition: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2011)
Original Title: La Fiesta del Chivo
Translated from the Spanish by: Edith Grossman (2001)
A political and historical novel of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930-1961.
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million.
Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit.