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. 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. The novel begins in the present day with the return of Urania Cabral to Ciudad Trujillo (Santo Domingo) for the first time after a 35-year absence. 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 Feast of the Goat, the seminal work by Mario Vargas Llosa (1936 ), describes the end of Rafael Lenidas Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic. 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.
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