The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa - November 9, 2002

Condition: clean copy.
Content: Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine year old Grania 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 depressed ailing dictator who 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 it own.

404 pages.