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The Feast of the Goat (Spanish: La Fiesta del Chivo) is a 2000 novel by the Peruvian Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.
- Rafael Torch, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman
- 2000
Nov 9, 2002 · His historical novel The Feast of the Goat, published in 2000, is set in the Dominican Republic. It examines the reign and fall of the dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, who ruled over the Caribbean nation from 1930 until his assassination in 1961.
- Rafael Torch, Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman
- $14.99
- Picador USA
Mar 4, 2011 · 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,...
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
Nov 9, 2002 · 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.
Oct 18, 2012 · 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...
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Vargas Llosa's vivid historical portrait of a regime of fear and its aftermath. It is 1961. The Dominican Republic languishes under economic sanctions; the Catholic church...