{"product_id":"the-feast-of-the-goat-by-mario-vargas-llosa","title":"The Feast of the Goat \/ by Mario Vargas Llosa","description":"\u003cp\u003ePicador, 2002. Trade paperback. VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eIn\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Feast of the Goat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBookforum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e), 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHaunted 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 conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56460121178278,"sku":null,"price":9.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/feast.webp?v=1778534289","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/the-feast-of-the-goat-by-mario-vargas-llosa","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}