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
