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 1961, 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 called the Goat, controls his inner circle (including Urania's father, a secretary of state now in disgrace) 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 is already under way that will have bloody consequences of its own.In this magisterial and long-awaited novel, Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the terrible birth of a democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and to the victims, both innocent and complicit, who were drawn into his deadly orbit
language: English
title: The Feast of the Goat
titlecomplete: The Feast of the Goat
characters: Johnny Abbes García, Rafael Trujillo, Antonio de la Maza, Agustín Cabral, Joaquín Balaguer, Ramfis Trujillo, Urania Cabral, Antonio Imbert Barrera
genres: Fiction, Politics, Spanish Literature, Latin American, Literature, Latin American Literature, Classics, Novels, Nobel Prize, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 33532
places: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
category: Shortlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux