About this title: If the devil exists, he is manifested as the protagonist of this novel. La Fiesta del Chivo is based on the last days and assassination of one of the most tyrannical, bloodthirsty dictators of Latin American, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. A passionate story combining anger and bewilderment; it is unthinkable to accept the brutal happenings as reality; it is easier to believe that brutality is only possible in the mind of the author.
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
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Edition: 3rd ed.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Punto de Lectura
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9788466303316ISBN:8466303316
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Paperback Edition-Average Wear-Few Markings-Written in Spanish. Text in Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 576 p. Punto de Lectura, 3. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Punto de Lectura 2000. Some Marks in Body of Text. Previous Owners Name Inside Front Cover. All books in VG or better condition. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Punto de Lectura
Date Published: 2001-08-01
ISBN-13:9788466303316ISBN:8466303316
Description: Good. New book in Spanish but cover damaged in shipping with creases, smudges, and small tears. Text is clean and crisp. Spine not creased. read more
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Punto de Lectura
Date Published: 2001-08-01
ISBN-13:9788466303316ISBN:8466303316
Description: Very Good. Mild shelf and corner wear; Tanning and mild soiling to page edges; Mild rubbing and wear to covers and spine; Small mild bend in front cover and the first few pages due to stacking; ** Free USPS tracking and confirm on US orders ** read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Alfaguara, Mexico
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9789681906993ISBN:9681906993
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover shows minor wear, spine uncreased; small, light stain on edge does not affect text; pages appear to be unmarked. Text in Spanish. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Date Published: 2006-09-30
ISBN-13:9788466318709ISBN:8466318704
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"Perhaps this a classic case of being lost in translation, but this portrait of the end of the Trujillo era in the Dominican Republic is surprisingly (and disappointingly) dispassionate for being a description of such a turbulent and horrifying. Almost clinical in its depiction of the events leading up to the assassination of Trujillo and the replacement of his government by one more geared to placate the Yankees, one would expect much more of an author of Llosa's talent and pedigree. Indeed, one is hesitant to call this a novel, for it is much more a history, though Llosa dares to delve into the psyches of the major players, and I suppose this is a novelistic conceit. Still, his readers could have done with considerably more of a novel of these times, perhaps focusing on more easily fictionalized characters not at the center of the history of the times."
"La fiesta del chivo es un libro que relata la historia de la dictaturia de Trujillo en la Republica Dominicana bajo 3 diferentes perspecivas. cada capitulo esta lleno de datos historicos y una narrativa arrolladora.
Este libro es un libro que debe formar parte de todas las bibliotecas hispanas e internacionales."
"I was intrigued by Vargas Llosa ever since I read about an incident in his life when he punched Gabriel Garcia Marquez square in his eyes because the latter was hitting on the former's then wife. Such a base reaction from a man to avenge a perceived loss of honor can only come from someone with deep passions wherever they lie. I took up this book also because it was a political story set in Trujillo's Dominican Republic and promised to be an expose of the horrors of that regime. I came away with a mixed sense of satisfaction and disappointment. The satisfaction caused by a neat rendition of Trujillo, the thuggery of the regime, and the not too surprising "ditch me at the altar" American foreign policy portrayal. The disappointment caused by a suffocatingly contrived sub plot of a young girl's honor being compromised by her own father to curry favor with a disapproving dictator. As easy as it is to believe that a rapacious dictator like Trujillo could have stopped at nothing perverse, surely it does not merit a central feature of a book that held out a greater promise of speaking to the cultural and political antecedents of what got the Dominican Republic to its unseemly fate in the Trujillo years in the first place?"
"I liked this but not as well as the other Vargas Llosa books I have read.
This is a novelization of the last days of the Trujillo regime in the Dominican Republic and the events leading up to his assassination. It focuses on the activities of three parties. One is Trujillo himself and his coterie. Another is the group of assassins. And the third focuses on the daughter of one of Trujillo's advisors who managed to escape to the United States prior to the assassination and is visiting Santo Domingo for the first time since her departure.
An interesting read, gives a lot of insight about what it is like in the inner circle of a Latin American dictatorship. Or at least it felt like insight - I had to keep reminding myself that it was a novel because it seemed so real."
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