I chose this book because I have very little knowledge of Central and South American or Caribbean history, so I've been reading a lot of historical fiction and authors from those regions. 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)Ī Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own.
In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, 49-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. 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.
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