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Apr 05, 2002 the feast of the goat mario vargas llosa, trans edith grossman 404pp, faber. His excellency generalissimo dr rafael l trujillo molina, the benefactor, father of the new nation the goat ruled the. The feast of the goat by mario vargas llosa abebooks. The feast of the goat, which sold more than 400,000. Goodreads members who liked the feast of the goat also liked.
Dec 28, 2010 i just finished the feast of the goat today, and i agree with rebecca that it was both excellent and horrifying. Mar 03, 2006 based on the bestselling novel by mario vargas llosa, this is the story of urania cabral isabella rossellini, a beautiful, kind, intelligent, and independent manhattan lawyer whom, after thirty years, returns to the dominican republic to face her ghosts and the horrifying circumstances that altered her life forever when she was a teenager, and rafael leonidas trujillo tomas milian a. The feast of the goat is a novel by the peruvian nobel prize in literature laureate mario vargas llosa. 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. In trujillos gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. I the supreme, by augusto antonio roa bastos, the president by miguel angel asturias and gabriel garciamarquezs autumn of the patriarch. In the feast of the goat he offers a vivid recreation of the dominican republic during the final days of general rafael trujillos insidious and evil regime.
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