{"title":"Fiction - World Literature - Peru","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-feast-of-the-goat-9780312420277","title":"The Feast of the Goat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat\u003c\/i\u003e, this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaunted 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. 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He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature \"for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat.\" He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include \u003ci\u003eThe Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, \u003c\/i\u003e all published by FSG. 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