[bksvol-discuss] Submitted: Feast of the goat
- From: "Brian Miller" <brian-r-miller@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:55:44 -0500
All,
I have just submitted for validation the following:
The Feast of the Goat -- A novel, by Mario Vargas Llosa, Viking, 2006.
From the book jacket:
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 1961,
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 (including Urania's
father, a secretary of state now in disgrace)
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 is already
under way that will have bloody consequences
of its own.
In this magisterial and long-awaited
novel, Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of
a regime and the terrible birth of a democracy,
giving voice to the historical Trujillo and
to the victims, both innocent and complicit,
who were drawn into his deadly orbit.
***
Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most important writers of the past fifty
years. While there are several books on Bookshare in Spanish by this author,
there are none in English. I hope to rectify this with this and other upcoming
submissions. Thanks for helping add this title to the collection.
Brian Miller
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