by Mario Vargas Llosa · ALFAGUARA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420470177
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«La Fiesta del Chivo» is the historical and political novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Alfaguara in paperback (520 pages, in Spanish).
Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo to reconnect with her father and with a past that has haunted her since she was fourteen. The narrative goes back to 1961, when the city was still called Ciudad Trujillo, and follows a group of conspirators preparing the end of Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship, the Goat, a regime of fear and corruption.
Originally published in 2000, it was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2003; this 2006 edition belongs to Alfaguara's Hispánica series.
For readers of historical fiction and political fiction, interested in Latin American narrative and twentieth-century dictatorships.
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".
