The Feast of the Goat

ISBN-13: 9780571288625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 496 str.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Opis

In 1961 in the Dominican Republic, the inner circle of dictator Rafael Trujillo enjoy the luxuries of privilege while the rest of the nation lives in fear and deprivation. As plots arise to topple the dictator, Urania Cabral's father, the disgraced secretary of state, sacrifices her to Trujillo in the hope of regaining his position.

Recenzje

The Feast of the Goat will stand out as the great emblematic novel of Latin America's twentieth century and removes One Hundred Years of Solitude of that title. Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He is the author of some of the last half-century's most important novels, including The War of the End of the World, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter and Conversation in the Cathedral. In 2010 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.