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The Feast of the Goat

2011-03-04 Fiction
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Release : 2011-03-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 781/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Feast of the Goat by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book The Feast of the Goat written by Mario Vargas Llosa. This book was released on 2011-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE In The Feast of the Goat, 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. 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. "A fierce, edgy and enthralling book ... Mr. Vargas Llosa has pushed the boundaries of the traditional historical novel, and in doing so has written a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance."--The New York Times

The Trees of the Dancing Goats

2013-11-26 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2013-11-26
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 676/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Trees of the Dancing Goats by : Patricia Polacco

Download or read book The Trees of the Dancing Goats written by Patricia Polacco. This book was released on 2013-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trisha loves the eight days of Hanukkah, when her mother stays home from work, her Babushka makes delicious potato latkes, and her Grampa carves wonderful animals out of wood as gifts for Trisha and her brother. In the middle of her family's preparation for the festival of lights, Trisha visits her closest neighbors, expecting to find them decorating their house for Christmas. Instead they are all bedridden with scarlet fever. Trisha's family is one of the few who has been spared from the epidemic. It is difficult for them to enjoy their Hanukkah feast when they know that their neighbors won't be able to celebrate their holiday. Then Grampa has an inspiration: they will cut down trees, decorate them, and secretly deliver them to the neighbors, "But what can we decorate them with?" Babushka asks. Although it is a sacrifice, Trisha realizes that Grampa's carved animals are the perfect answer. Soon her living room is filled with trees -- but that is only the first miracle of many during an incredible holiday season. Based on a long cherished childhood memory, this story celebrates the miracle of true friendship.

A Fish in the Water

2011-07-05 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2011-07-05
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 540/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis A Fish in the Water by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book A Fish in the Water written by Mario Vargas Llosa. This book was released on 2011-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mario Vargas Llosa's A Fish in the Water is a twofold book: a memoir of one of Latin America's most celebrated witers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru; and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990.

Trujillo

1990 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 1990
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Trujillo by : Bernard Diederich

Download or read book Trujillo written by Bernard Diederich. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Harsh Times

2021-11-23 Fiction
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Release : 2021-11-23
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Harsh Times by : Mario Vargas Llosa

Download or read book Harsh Times written by Mario Vargas Llosa. This book was released on 2021-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of Guatemala’s political turmoil of the 1950s as only a master of fiction can tell it Guatemala, 1954. The military coup perpetrated by Carlos Castillo Armas and supported by the CIA topples the government of Jacobo Árbenz. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changes the development of Latin America: the accusation by the Eisenhower administration that Árbenz encouraged the spread of Soviet Communism in the Americas. Harsh Times is a story of international conspiracies and conflicting interests in the time of the Cold War, the echoes of which are still felt today. In this thrilling novel, Mario Vargas Llosa fuses reality with two fictions: that of the narrator, who freely re-creates characters and situations, and the one designed by those who would control the politics and the economy of a continent by manipulating its history. Harsh Times is a gripping, revealing novel that directly confronts recent history. No one is better suited to tell this riveting story than Vargas Llosa, and there is no form better for it than his deeply textured fiction. Not since The Feast of the Goat, his classic novel of the downfall of Trujillo’s regime in the Dominican Republic, has Vargas Llosa combined politics, characters, and suspense so unforgettably.

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