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Edith Grossman (trans) and
Mario Vargas Llosa
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date
November 1, 2001
Pages
404
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780374154769
ISBN-10
0374154767
Dimensions
1.25 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.50 lbs.
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$25.00
§As reported by publisher
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La fiesta del chivo / The Feast of the Goat (Spanish Edition) | Modern China | A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies | The Discreet Hero | Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter | The War of the End of the World | Death in the Andes
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Returning to her native Domincan Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral, discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called the Goat by the Domincans, still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail, but soon an uprising against him will result in a revolution that will have profound consequences. 50,000 first printing.
Amazon.com description: Product 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's story, self-imposed exile whose father was Trujillo's cowardly Secretary of State. Drawn back to the country of her birth from 30 years after Trujillo's assasination, the widening scope of the dictator's cruelty finds expression in her story, and a rapt audience in her extended family.
In The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa weighs the burden of a corrupt and corruptive regime upon the people who live beneath it. This is a moving portrait of an unrepentant dictator and the unwilling citizens drawn into his orbit.
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's story, self-imposed exile whose father was Trujillo's cowardly Secretary of State. Drawn back to the country of her birth from 30 years after Trujillo's assasination, the widening scope of the dictator's cruelty finds expression in her story, and a rapt audience in her extended family.
In The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa weighs the burden of a corrupt and corruptive regime upon the people who live beneath it. This is a moving portrait of an unrepentant dictator and the unwilling citizens drawn into his orbit.
Editions
Hardcover
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from Farrar Straus & Giroux (November 1, 2001)
9780374154769 | details & prices | 404 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.50 lbs | List price $25.00
About: Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called 'the Goat,' still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail.
About: Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called 'the Goat,' still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail.
Paperback
With Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman (other contributor) |
New edition from Gardners Books (February 17, 2003)
9780571207763 | details & prices | 480 pages | 5.00 × 7.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.68 lbs | List price $14.80
About: Urania Cabral, now a lawyer, returns to Santo Domingo to face her father, Senator Augustin Cabral.
About: Urania Cabral, now a lawyer, returns to Santo Domingo to face her father, Senator Augustin Cabral.
Reprint edition from Picador USA (November 1, 2002)
9780312420277 | details & prices | 416 pages | 5.75 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called 'the Goat,' still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail.
About: Returning to her native Dominican Republic, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral discovers that Rafael Trujillo, the depraved dictator called 'the Goat,' still reigns over his inner circle, which includes Urania's father, with brutality and blackmail.
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