num_pages: 404
description: 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.This translation was first published in 2001 by Farrar, Strauss and Giroux.
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: Faber and Faber