The Feast of the Goat av Mario Vargas Llosa

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<p><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b><br><br><b>In <i>The Feast of the Goat</i>, this ''masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written'' (<i>Bookforum</i>), 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.</b><br><br>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 of l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. 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 a way of life. But Trujillo''s grasp is slipping. There is a co