![]() ![]() If one or more items are not available when you place your order there may be a delay in dispatch, so that we can send your items in as few parcels as possible. ![]() Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. In The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa eloquently explores the effects of power and violence on the lives of both the oppressors and those they victimized. Now, thirty years later, Urania reveals how her own family was fatally wounded by the forces of history. ![]() 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.Īs Trujillo clings to power, a plot to push the Dominican Republic into the future is being formed.īut 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. Urania’s own story alternates with the powerful climax of dictator Rafael Trujillo’s reign. Once she is back in her homeland, the elusive feeling of terror that has overshadowed her whole life suddenly takes shape. ‘The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America’s twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title.’ Times Literary SupplementUrania Cabral, a New York lawyer, returns to the Dominican Republic after a lifelong self-imposed exile. ![]()
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