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The
2003 Award
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The Feast of the Goat by
Mario Vargas Llosa Nominated by:
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Publisher of Nominated Edition: Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN 0374154767 |
| the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors. |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Haunted
all her life by feelings of emptiness and terror, forty-nine-year-old Urania
Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic. She finds herself reliving
the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and
one old man terrorised 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. The Feast of the Goat 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. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost writer. In 1995 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honour. His novels include Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, In Praise of the Stepmother, and The Notebooks of Don Roberto. He lives in London. |
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