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Vargas Llosa's vivid historical portrait of a regime of fear and its aftermath. It is 1961. The Dominican Republic languishes under economic sanctions; the Catholic church spurs its clergy against the government; from its highest ranks down, the country is arrested in bone-chilling fear. In The Feast of the Goat, Vargas Llosa unflinchingly tells the story of a regime's final days and the unsteady efforts of the men who would replace it.

An enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.

This novel tells the story of the rise and fall of the mythical town of Macondo through the history of the family.

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters - Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé - speak across the decades to tell their own stories.