ISBN: 0312420277 9780312420277

Category: Fiction / Historical / General

Page count: 404

<p><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br> <b>In <i>The Feast of the Goat</i>, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (<i>Bookforum</i>), 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.</b><br><br>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. <br><br>"A fierce, edgy and enthralling book ... Mr. 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."--<i>The New York Times</i></p>