![]() Vargas Llosa has pushed the boundaries of the traditional historical novel, and in doing so has written a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. 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. The story consists of three parallel narratives. 1, 2001 The Peruvian master ( The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto, 1998, etc.) now turns to the bloody reign (193061) of the Dominican Republic’s dictatorial president Rafael Trujilloand its aftermath. In The Feast of the Goat, 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. THE FEAST OF THE GOAT by Mario Vargas Llosa & translated by Edith Grossman RELEASE DATE: Nov. ![]()
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