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The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman

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Author: Edith Grossman, Mario Vargas Llosa
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-11-09
ISBN: 0312420277
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Picador

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Book Review: Brutal, and uncompromising do not buy this book if you are s
Summary: 5 Stars

Brutal, and uncompromising do not buy this book if you are squeamish.
The books starts off slowly- a brilliant middle-aged (polymath) woman, Urania Cabral, the daughter of the former Secretary Of State to the Dominican Republic visits her father who is barley alive- he cannot speak but we think he can listen and understand what she is saying. She speaks to her father for the first time in thirty years about what her father did when she was a little girl. Whilst she has been away she has, as an obsession/ hobby, studied the recent history of the Dominican Republic and in particular the regime of her fathers boss General Rafael Trujillo. The story she tells is horrific- you will have to read it to find out what happens .... believe me the denouement is extreme and comes at you like an express train. My favourite chapter is one of extreme calm, the interregnum and Joaquin Balauer scheming and taking ultimate control. Totally Machiavellian, absolutely mesmerizing
Mario Vargas Llosa is a great writer. The book is a must read because, as George Santayana said in 1905, 'Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it!'

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