num_pages: 404
description: Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. 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. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In 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.
language: English
title: The Feast of the Goat
titlecomplete: The Feast of the Goat
characters: Antonio de la Maza, Johnny Abbes García, Joaquín Balaguer, Agustín Cabral, Rafael Trujillo, Urania Cabral, Antonio Imbert Barrera, Ramfis Trujillo
genres: Spanish Literature, Politics, Historical Fiction, Nobel Prize, Novels, Literature, Latin American, Classics, Fiction, Latin American Literature
ratings_count: 33518
places: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Picador