The Feast of the Goat

Mario Vargas Llosa · 2000 CE · Novel · Latin American · Contemporary

Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo after thirty-five years away and finally tells her family why she left. Interleaved with her story are the last day of Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship in 1961, seen from inside his circle, and the men who plot to kill him on the road. Vargas Llosa's return to the dictator novel Latin American fiction had made its own, written from long archival work.

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