Works by Mario Vargas Llosa (Study Guide) - Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa, Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, the Feast of the Goat, the Storyteller (Paperback)

This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Essays by Mario Vargas Llosa, Novels by Mario Vargas Llosa, the Feast of the Goat, the Storyteller, the War of the End of the World, the Way to Paradise, Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, the Green House, Who Killed Palomino Molero?, the Time of the Hero, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service, the Bad Girl, the Temptation of the Impossible, the Perpetual Orgy. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Feast of the Goat (Spanish:, 2000) is a novel by the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. The book is set in the Dominican Republic and portrays the assassination of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, and its aftermath, from two distinct standpoints a generation apart: during and immediately after the assassination itself, in May 1961; and thirty years later, in 1996. Throughout, there is also extensive reflection on the heyday of the dictatorship, in the 1950s, and its significance for the island and its inhabitants. The novel follows three interwoven story lines. The first concerns a woman, Urania Cabral, who is back in the Dominican Republic, after a long absence, to visit her ailing father; she ends up recalling incidents from her youth and recounting a long-held secret to her aunt and cousin. The second story line focuses on the last day in Trujillo's life from the moment he wakes up onwards, and shows us the regime's inner circle, to which Urania's father once belonged. The third strand depicts Trujillo's assassins, many of whom had previously been government loyalists, as they wait for the President's car late that night; after the assassination, this story line shows us the assassins' persecution. Each aspect of the book's plot reveals a different viewpoin...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=475208