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FREE THE FEAST OF THE GOAT PDF Mario Vargas Llosa | 496 pages | 19 Sep 2014 | FABER & FABER | 9780571288625 | English | London, United Kingdom The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Edith Grossman Translator. 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 ofwhen the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, control 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 ofwhen the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million people. 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 the way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping away. 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. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published by Faber and Faber first published More Details Original Title. Dominican Republic. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see The Feast of the Goat your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Feast of the Goatplease sign up. See The Feast of the Goat question about The Feast of the Goat…. Lists The Feast of the Goat This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Feast of the Goat. The Irish Independant did not exaggerate on the back cover when they say this book "makes for page-turning reading that entertains, educates, and horrifies in almost equal parts. I found the writing incredible, the pace breathtaking, and the violence absolutely terrifying. Having read and reviewed here on GR Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz earlier this year, I knew sort of what to expect, but this book surprised me at nearly every turn. It is no wonder that Mario Vargas Llosa got a Nobel. This is a work of pure genius and one that will The Feast of the Goat nearly impossible to forget. I really liked the protagonist Urania and how her arc in constructed. The failure of the US to act in the Caribbean to prevent atrocities like the 30 years of Trujillo and the brutal aftermath that followed the vacuum he left behind because of anti-Castro politics is appalling and made me feel ashamed. This also reminded me of my favorite read this year, A Brief History of Seven Killings where the CIA actively supported the violence in Jamaica again because of paranoia about Cuba and the failure of the Bay of Pigs operation. The massacre genocidal in every way is as chilling in Vargas Llosa as it was in Diaz's book. Makes me wonder if anyone wrote a book about the Haitian side of a that story and of the excesses of the Duvaliers and their terrifying TonTon Macoute who made a small, brutal appearance in Goat. The narration of the book is perfect - always a section with Urania, followed by one of Trujillo and his circle plus his Quo Vadis obsession and one of the conspiracy to assassinate him. It makes for fast-paced and exciting reading. Highly, highly recommended reading. View all 29 comments. The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately after the assassination itself, in May ; and thirty-five years later, in Throughout, there is also extensive reflection on the heyday of the dictatorship, in the 's, and its significance for the island and its inhabitants. View all 13 comments. Jan 10, Fabian rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites. Bona fide. As a The Feast of the Goat you cannot ask for more. This dense and complex novel about the Trujillo Era in the D. A sturdy and sure classic. Read THIS! View all 3 comments. Nov 24, Jim Fonseca rated it it was amazing Shelves: peruvian-authors. A political and historical novel of Rafael Trujillo, dictator The Feast of the Goat the Dominican Republic from This novel is a factually correct version of the events focused around his assassination in when Trujillo was 70 years old. We see the life of this brutal and sadistic man who also loved his country and was politically brilliant, hard-working and fastidious. He sent his cronies on overseas missions so he could visit their wives who could dare not refuse his attentions. Trujillo was charis A political and historical novel of Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from Trujillo was charismatic with a piercing gaze and high-pitched voice does that remind us of another brutal dictator in The Feast of the Goat She has been absent for 35 years as a New York lawyer. She returns to confront her comatose father and aging relatives and to reveal a Horrible Secret The Feast of the Goat them that explains her year absence. Bookforum called this one of the finest political novels ever written and I agree. View all The Feast of the Goat comments. But what if Caesar thought he was God? And so goes the story of Rafael Trujillo, power hungry dictator of the Dominican Republic for a period The Feast of the Goat thirty years until his brutal assassination in Varied narratives blend together seemlessly to give us a portrait of three decades of corruption, violence and terror. In alternating chapters, the story is told through memories of the men The Feast of the Goat banded together to take down The Goat, as well as through the voice of The Goat himself on the day of his assassination. Vargas Llosa also allows the reader to peek into the mind of the Generalissimo himself. Through the inner thoughts of Trujillo, now seventy years old, incontinent, impotent, yet still revered and feared, we learn how devious and evil the man truly was. Captivating, intense and gruesome, this novel will keep your attention throughout and haunt you long after you've finished its final pages. Feb 09, Settare rated it it was amazing Shelves: favoritesto-re-readwar-conflictwishlistread-in-persiantranslatedlatin-americaon-tyrants-and-dictators. Excruciatingly bitter, agonizingly poignant in its prose and plot and message, painful to read, absolutely brilliant. The Feast of the Goat is, without a doubt, one of the best books I have ever read. Aside from the brilliant writing, prose, and storytelling merits, this book is important because it educates us on the abhorrent essence of tyranny and dictatorial regimes. The unsettling truth about 'unimportant' countries battling with tyrannical rulers is that people are isolated and no one from Excruciatingly bitter, agonizingly poignant in its prose and plot and message, painful to read, absolutely brilliant. The unsettling truth about 'unimportant' countries battling with tyrannical rulers is that people are isolated and no one from the outside world cares. When a few decades pass, no one even remembers the struggle of the inhabitants of the said country. Usually, there's little to no spotlight for people who are suffering like that, that's why I think it's admirable, important, and even effective for writers as prolific as Llosa to write about those people and their suffering in fiction. The Feast of the Goat fiction has the power to move and to educate and to preserve history. What happened to the people of the Dominican Republic during the rule of Trujillo is a gruesome part of history, The Feast of the Goat is constantly being repeated in similar patterns in other countries, and if we are to not fall for aspiring new dictators or get rid of the ones that already inhibit many countries, we should read. And The Feast of the Goat is a superb example of the kind of books we could, and should, read. Mr Llosa can write. I won't dispute that. But this is not a good novel for me for the following reasons. The scope of the book is The Feast of the Goat and too much feels rushed. He might have narrowed his scope, but alas he wants it all. Because of the enormous narrative breadth, this reader never got the level of satisfaction in the area of character development that he would have liked; there are so many characters and after a while Mr Llosa can write. The Feast of the Goat of the enormous narrative breadth, this reader never got the level of satisfaction in the area of character development that he would have liked; there are so many characters and after a while they all seem to blur.

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