Book description
Urania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic
after a lifelong self-imposed exile. Once she is back in her homeland,
the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life
suddenly takes shape. Urania's own story alternates with the powerful
climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo's reign. In 1961, Trujillo's
decadent inner circle (which includes Urania's soon-to-be disgraced
father) enjoys the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation
lives in fear and deprivation. As Trujillo clings to power, a plot to
push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed. But after
the murder of its hated dictator, the Goat, is carried out, the
Dominican Republic is plunged into the nightmare of a bloody and
uncertain aftermath. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her
own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. In The Feast
of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of
power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they
victimized. 'The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great
emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One
Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.' Times Literary Supplement
Mario Vargas-Llosa was born in Peru is 1936. He is the author of some
of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of
the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the
Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded
the Nobel Prize in Literature.
