after Urania faces her past, nothing in her present or future will ever be the same again. and the horrifying circumstances that altered her life forever when she was a teenager and Rafael LeÃ³nidas Trujillo a.k.a El Chivo (The Goat) was the iron-handed ruler of this island paradise. |y .Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family's relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his assassination.īased on the best-selling novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, this is the story of Urania Cabral, a beautiful, kind, intelligent and independent Manhattan lawyer wom, after 30 years returns to RepÃºblica Dominicana to face her ghosts. |y .i36270131 |i 31652001483594 |l wdpa |s - |k |u 12 |x 0 |w 1 |v 9 |t 0 |z 12-03-01 |o - |a FICTION Vargas Llosa Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, 49-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republicand finds. She broke off contact with her Dominican relatives when she left for a Catholic school in the United States, at age 14, in 1961. |a Dominican Republic |x History |y 1961- |v Fiction. Urania Cabral returns to the Dominican Republic in 1996 after her father, a former official in the Trujillo government, falls ill.

|a Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, |d 1891-1961 |v Fiction. |a New York : |b Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, |c 2001. |a The Feast of the Goat / |c Mario Vargas Llosa translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d C#P |d CSP |d JRS Vargas Llosa has pushed the boundaries of the traditional historical novel, and in doing so has written a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance.'- The New York Times There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. At the beginning takes place a murder of a Spanish writer called Galindo (Gary Piquer) denouncing crimes of the dictator, as he is executed by Trujillo's hoodlums.

Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. Spanish/ British / Dominican Republic rendition based on known best-seller by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and directed by his cousin Luis Llosa. 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.

In The Feast of the Goat, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' ( Bookforum), 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.

The feast of the goat