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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. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. 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.… (mais)
Um livro absolutamente brilhante de um dos maiores escritores da história da literatura universal. vargas llosa consegue prender o leitor atè á última página com uma mestria que nos conduz directamente à história dramática da República Dominicana mas também à alma e ao coração dos personagens. Dos milhares de livros que já li só este me fez largar alguma lágrimas. ( )
Für diesen Roman ist es nur von nachrangiger Bedeutung, ob Fakten oder Imaginationen dominieren. Vargas Llosa, der 1990 in Peru bei den Präsidentenwahlen gegen Alberto Fujimori unterlag, hat (nach eigenen Angaben) zwar gründlich recherchiert, doch erst mittels seiner bildkräftigen Sprache und seiner scharf konturierten Personenbilder konnte dieses gleichermaßen beeindruckende wie beängstigende Gesellschaftsbild entstehen, das von einer "spirituelle[n] Knechtschaft" (so der Autor) geprägt sei.
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El pueblo celebra con gran entusiasmo la Fiesta del Chivo el treinta de mayo. Mataron al Chivo Merengue Dominicano
The people celebrate and go all the way for the Feast of the Goat the Thirtieth of May.
—"They Killed The Goat" A Dominican merengue
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A Lourdes y José Israel Cuello, y a tantos amigos dominicanos
To Lourdas and José Israel Cuello and so many other Dominican friends
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Urania. Her parents had done her no favor; her name suggested a planet, a mineral, anything but the slender, fine-featured woman with burnished skin and large, dark, rather sad eyes who looked back at her from the mirror.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
"If Marianita writes to me, I'll answer all her letters," she decides.
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. Rafael Trujillo, the depraved ailing dictator whom Dominicans call the Goat, controls his inner circle with a combination of violence and blackmail. In Trujillo's gaudy palace, treachery and cowardice have become a way of life. But Trujillo's grasp is slipping. There is a conspiracy against him, and a Machiavellian revolution already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. 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.
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Group Read, March 2017: The Feast of the Goat
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