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The Feast of the Goat

by: Mario Vargas Llosa (author)

Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns to her native Dominican Republic - and finds herself reliving the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million. Rafael... show more

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Format: Paperback

Publisher: Picador

Pages no: 416

Edition language: English

Category:

Humour, Politica

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Hol rated it

7 years ago

http://holliem85.booklikes.com Hol 5.0 The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

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The Feast of the Goat was the last book picked by my RL book club and I’m so grateful that they chose it, otherwise I mightn’t have read this fantastic book about the Trujillo era. The book starts off by introducing us to Urania Cabal who has just returned to the Dominican Republic at the age of f...

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Hol rated it

7 years ago

http://holliem85.booklikes.com Hol 0.0 Reading progress update: I've read 72 out of 475 pages.

text Reading progress update: I've read 72 out of 475 pages.

When I saw him so absorbed in his reading, for he was reading as he walked, my curiosity was piqued. You know how much I love books. I could not have been more astonished. He can not be in his right mind. Do you know what he was enjoying so much? A book about Chinese tortures, with photographs of th...

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Hol rated it

7 years ago

http://holliem85.booklikes.com Hol 0.0 Reading progress update: I've read 31 out of 475 pages.

text Reading progress update: I've read 31 out of 475 pages.

I'd just started an Irvine Welsh novel when I remembered that I have a meeting of my RL book club at the end of the month *slaps head*. With that in mind I decided I should really get started on this as I'm not getting a lot of time to read at the minute, due to writing commitments. So far I'm rea...

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Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story rated it

11 years ago

http://angelareisetter.booklikes.com Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story 4.0 The Feast of the Goat

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Llosa takes the huge, horrible story of the reign of Trujillo and distills it into two intense events. One is very public, involving a large cast of characters: the day of Trujillo's assassination and its immediate aftermath. The other is intensely personal for one fictional woman and her family: ...

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