Feast of the Goat

Title: Feast of the Goat Author: Mario Vargas Llosa ISBN: 9780374154769 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Published: 2001 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: A" Library Journal" Best Book Vargas Llosa's vivid historical portrait of a regime of fear and its aftermath It is 1961. The Dominican Republic languishes under economic sanctions; the Catholic church spurs its clergy against the government; from its highest ranks down, the country is arrested in bone-chilling fear. In "The Feast of the Goat" Vargas Llosa unflinchingly tells the story of a regime's final days and the unsteady efforts of the men who would replace it. His narrative skates between the rituals of the hated dictator, Rafael Trujillo, in his daily routine, and the laying-in-wait of the assasins who will kill him; their initial triumph; and the shock of fear's release--and replacements. In the novel's final chapters we learn Urania Cabral'