Rent The Feast of the Goat

Synopsis

When Urania Cabal returns home to the Dominican Republic, she is swept up in her memories of the days of Trujillo's dictatorship, when her father was in the midst of it all as secretary of state. She recalls the horrors of the regime, and also the conspiracies and the rumbling of a revolution that would ultimately bring Trujillo down in a wave of violence that has its own repercussions. Mario Vargas Llosa's novel explores a world long gone in which life in the Dominican Republic was undergoing sweeping changes that would bring it into the modern world. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001.

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