The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa • 2000
Devastation Rating
Dominican Republic dictatorship rape Latin America
Our Take
The last days of Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, rendered through three alternating perspectives: the dictator, the conspirators who kill him, the woman who returns to face what Trujillo did to her family. Vargas Llosa is merciless about the collaboration that allows a monster to persist.
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