the feast of the goat by mario vargas llosa

He was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat'.

Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation. Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa (last name Llosa is pronounced: yoh-sa) is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate.

Awards-Nobel Prize too many more to list.

Education-National University of San Marcos.

In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' ( Bookforum), Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the birth of a terrible democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and the victims, both innocent and complicit, drawn into his deadly orbit. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life.

Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. 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 l961, when the capital was still called Trujillo City and one old man terrorized a nation of three million.

The feast of the goat by mario vargas llosa