Feast of the Goat

By: Mario Vargas Llosa

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Synopsis: 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 1961, 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 (including Urania's father, a secretary of state now in disgrace) 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 is already under way that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this magisterial and long-awaited novel, Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the terrible birth of a democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and to the victims, both innocent and complicit, who were drawn into his deadly orbit.

Book Quality:: Excellent
Book Size:: 398 Pages
Publisher:: N/A
Date of Addition:: 11/15/07
Copyrighted By:: Mario Vargas Llosa
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Literature and Fiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Brian Miller
Proofread By:: Amber W
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.