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The Feast of the Goat

By Mario Vargas Llosa & Edith Grossman
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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.

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.

"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."--The New York Times

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“hace muchos años ya, mi abuela conoció mario vargas llosa y le preguntó, ‘por qué hizo un libro sobre la dictadura dominicana, cuando usted no es de aquí, y ocurrieron tantas otras dictaduras en nuestro continente?’ y él le respondió que en latino america no hubo una dictadura más perversa. que pervirtió a toda una nación. que no hubo otra tan sangrienta, donde tranquilamente se asesinaba gente fuera del país. a mi siempre me ha frustrado escuchar gente decir EL DIA DE HOY que ‘trujillo no era tan malo’ y ahora después de este día me frustra aun más!!!! hombre perverso y horrible que convirtió a la república dominicana y a sus ciudadanos a personas perversas y horribles!!!! torturando a matando a cualquier hombre, torturando y violando a cualquier mujer. nos convertimos en un lugar donde los hombres venden a sus hijas para quedar bien con el Jefe. trujillo era un ladrón, asesino, torturador, violador y pedófilo que nos mantuvo congelados en el tiempo 31 años y nos jodió económicamente por imbecil. y todos a su alrededor eran iguales. dios mio que cuando vuelva a escuchar ‘trujillo no era tan malo’ léanse este libro!!! es más, léanse CUALQUIER libro de historia dominicana por dios. este verdaderamente es un libro increíble. yo usualmente no leo en español, pero la manera que está escrito es muy cautivador. lit cuando llegue a la segunda mitad no lo pude bajar el libro. esta divido en tres puntos de vista. primero va uranita, hija de un ex-funcionario de trujillo que cayó en desgracia al fin del régimen. de verdad que lo de uranita me partió el alma a mi. osea tragedia tragedia. yo honestamente me imaginaba lo que había sufrido, pero cuando llego el momento de leer me quede”

About Mario Vargas Llosa

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2010 "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." Peru's foremost writer, he has been awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.

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