The Feast of the Goat

The collected works of one of Latin America's greatest writers. Urania Cabral returns to the Dominican Republic after thirty-five years to confront her ailing father with his past as a puppet of the terrible dictator Trujillo. Through her monologues and Trujillo's merciless story, the decades that this potentate terrorized his country come to life. The Feast of the Goat is not only a vivid account of a dictatorship but also the story of a woman who cannot leave her traumatic past behind and who, despite the horrific memories she carries with her, will feel connected to a perverse dictator until her death. He will forever remain the man who determined her life. In a painfully subtle but precise tone, Vargas Llosa provides insight into the human inability to let go of the past.