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The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman
from Picador
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Great book! 
This is a great book. Required for my class. You can probably find this book a few bucks cheaper. I rather pay the extra dough and save on time and hassle wasted like waiting in line during the beginning days of school or waiting for the auction to end or hoping the seller ships your book to get it before the beginning weeks of class. Just save time and sanity and purchase from amazon.
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History and literature melt in an amazing book
"La fiesta del chivo", that's the original title in Spanish, is about the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo dictatorship. He was all you can expect of a Latin American dictator: corrupt, silly, surronded by incompetence, violent and so on. It is amazing that such an individual could have run a country. But well, it happened and Mario Vargas Llosa describes it so well... You will be transported to that time through the life of Urania, the daughter of a member of Trujillo's regime, and history and novel... more info
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great writing 
The Feast of the Goat: A Novel
Enjoyed this book very much and would highly recommend.
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The Folly of a Demigod
Without doubt, this is the finest biographical fiction ever written. As he stated in a Wall Street Journal interview today, literature is a powerful tool to further the cause of human rights and liberty, and Mr Vargas Llosa's talents are superior in every respect, whether developing the inexorable progress of the parallel plots of the dictator's amoral indulgences, the simple assassins' hopelesssly ambitious revolutionary plot, or the innocent victim's path to the slaughter. Each character is painted with... more info
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