Title: La Fiesta del Chivo
Description: "Novela histórica sobre los últimos días del general Rafael Leonidas Trujillo en la República Dominicana en 1961. El hilo conductor de la novela es el retorno a la isla de Urania Cabral, hija de un senador del régimen trujillista, luego de muchos años de la muerte del dictador. Mientras Urania visita a su padre moribundo, la narración reconstruye el fin de una era haciendo un recuento de una serie de personajes históricos, entre ellos, el sempiterno presidente de la República Dominicana, Joaquín Balaguer y ascenso político. La crueldad del poder y la maldad humana destacan en este gran relato, una de las mejores novelas del novelista peruano". --Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.


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A 49 year old expatriate Urania Cabral living a life of emptiness and terrorizing memories is finaly returning to her native Dominican Republic to face her nightmares.  The year is 1961, the pick of a brutal and horrifying regime lead by Rafael Trujillo, an ailing but still powerful and degenerate dictator. He is called the Goat by the nation of 3 million.  Little she knows that despite all the ever present oppresion, cowardice and invigilation there is a conspiracy brewing against the Goat.

In this fast paced narrative, masterfuly constructed by Llosa in a typical multilevel, entwining byplays you will find yourself in the world of horror, deception, violence and bloody clashes.  It is also a kaleidoscope of human characters, demeanour and decissions in confrontation with a brutal and complex reality.
Extraordinary literature. Fantastic material for a movie adaptation.
Subjects: Novela peruana, Fiction, Novela, Historia, History, Political fiction, Translations into English, Women lawyers, Fathers and daughters, Sixties (20th century), Spanish fiction, Peruvian fiction, Massacres, Trujillo. Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961, Fiction, political, Fiction (fictional works by one author), Fathers and daughters, fiction, Fiction, historical, Women lawyers, fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Romans, nouvelles, Histoire, 4 Ficción, Ficción, Masacres, Romans, Despotisme, Politique et gouvernement, Drama, Nobel Prize winners, Fiction, general, Dominican republic, fiction, Literatura dominicana, Novela dominicana, Politics and government, Literatura peruana, Law reports, digests, Law, Digests
Places: Dominican Republic, República Dominicana, Latin America
People: Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (1891-1961), Joaquín Balaguer (1906-2002), Joaquín Balaguer (1906-)
Time periods: 1961-, Siglo XX