by Mario Vargas Llosa · Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420467962
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«La fiesta del chivo» is the historical novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in hardcover (520 pages, in Spanish).
After decades of exile, Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo; in parallel, the narrative goes back to 1961, when the Dominican capital was still called Ciudad Trujillo and Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, the Goat, ruled absolutely. Several voices reconstruct the decline of the dictatorship, the complicities and the fear that dominated society.
Originally published in 2000, this Alfaguara edition is from 2005. The work was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the Dublin Literary Award in 2003.
For readers of historical fiction and Latin American narrative, and for those who follow the work of Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize in Literature 2010.
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".
