Feast of the Goat

In the mid-1990s, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral, haunted by a sense of terror and emptiness, returns to her homeland in the Dominican Republic and relives the events of 1961, when the capital was still called Ciudad Trujillo, and the aging Rafael Trujillo, a sick and promiscuous dictator, terrorized three million Dominican people. Violence, fear, and masterful blackmail allowed Trujillo to keep his inner circle firmly under control, making treachery and cowardice a way of life in the opulent presidential palace. However, the dictator's grip is weakening with age, a conspiracy is brewing in the country, the result of which is a kind of "Machiavellian revolution", which in itself will have bloody consequences.

Mario Vargas Llosa's Feast of the Goat is unanimously recognized by critics and readers as a masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, one of the best political novels ever written.