Screen LibraryThe feast of the Goat
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Picador USA,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2001. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Item Description: | Fiesta del Chivo. |
| Carrier Form: | 404 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0312420277 (pbk.) 9780312420277 (pbk.) |
| Index Number: | I778 |
| CLC: | I778.45 |
| Call Number: | I778.45/V297-8 |
| Contents: | 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 Machiavellia |