'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 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.
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