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Title	:	The Feast of the Goat
Author	:	Mario Vargas Llosa
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 475 pages
Published	:	2003 by Faber and Faber (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Novels. Cultural. Latin American. European Literature. Spanish Literature

The Feast of the Goat

Mario Vargas Llosa

Paperback | Pages: 475 pages

Rating: 4.26 | 22683 Users | 1965 Reviews

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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 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. 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 the way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping away. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In 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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Original Title:	La fiesta del Chivo
ISBN:	0571207766 (ISBN13: 9780571207763)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Urania Cabral, Agustín Cabral, Rafael Trujillo, Johnny Abbes García, Ramfis Trujillo, Joaquín Balaguer, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Antonio de la Maza
Setting:	Dominican Republic
Literary Awards:	Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2003), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2003)

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Mr Llosa can write. I won't dispute that. But this is not a good novel for me for the following reasons. (1) The author has bitten off far more than he can chew in a mere 400 pages. The scope of the book is vast and too much feels rushed. He might have narrowed his scope, but alas he wants it all. Because of the enormous narrative breadth, this reader never got the level of satisfaction in the area of character development that he would have liked; there are so many characters and after a while

A powerful and scary novel about a lesser known dictator, Rafael Tujillo (and his murderous family) of the Dominican Republic, who ruled the tiny nation of three million luckless souls for 31 years, convincing me that all dictators are of a type: charismatic, self-absorbed, delusional, ruthless and vicious, especially when their sexual prowess starts to flag.Told from multiple viewpoints, the story focuses on the day of Trujillos assassination, on the bloody aftermath that follows, and on the

La Fiesta del Chivo = The Feast of The Goat, Mario Vargos LlosaThe Feast of the Goat (Spanish: La fiesta del chivo, 2000) is a novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately after the assassination itself, in May 1961; and thirty-five years later, in 1996.

A political and historical novel of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930-1961. This novel is a factually correct version of the events focused around his assassination in 1961 when Trujillo was 70 years old. We see the life of this brutal and sadistic man who also loved his country and was politically brilliant, hard-working and fastidious. He sent his cronies on overseas missions so he could visit their wives who could dare not refuse his attentions. Trujillo was

I will speak briefly of Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat. This book is about the dictator Rafael Trujillo who ruled the Dominican Republic for some thirty years. Several narratives run in parallel: that of Urania, who spent her early years in the Dominican Republic before fleeing to the USA after some grand betrayal from her father; that of the four or so people who are trying to assassinate Trujillo; and that of Trujillo himself. As the book progresses, the narratives branch out and

They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. "Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime. I keep remembering those summer nights, many years ago, when the air was heavy with the tension of passionate discussions about Ceausescu and the political changes after his death and the communism specter that continued to haunt our country. We were young and hopeful and we mockingly called all those regretting the past old

This book tells us the story of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled Dominican Republic for 30 years. It tells us about the rise and fall of the man was brutal, power hungry, cruel, and would stop at nothing to remain in power. He was assassinated in 1961.Story is told by Rafael himself; Urania, daughter of very influential political figure, and the assassins. Author has merged all these PoV beautifully. With a right mix of reality and fiction we get to see the insecurities that Trujillo felt in his last