by Mario Vargas Llosa · Alfaguara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420441696
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«La Fiesta del Chivo» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (520 pages, in Spanish).
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo and is reunited with her father as the novel reconstructs the final days of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's dictatorship in 1961. The narrative alternates family memory with the voices of those preparing the regime's downfall, and portrays fear, oppression, and the complex transition to democracy.
The novel was published on February 25, 2000 and is part of the Alfaguara Literaturas series.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
