The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman

The Feast of the Goat



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The Feast of the Goat Mario Vargas Llosa, Edith Grossman ebook
Format: epub
Publisher: Picador
Page: 421
ISBN: 0312420277, 9780312420277


Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. A group of anxious devotees wait for the word from god. Three men, who would soon be god, stand before the deity. For today's second Fiction Friday installment (here's the first) we brood over an excerpt from Nobel winner Mario Vargas Llosa's The Feast of the Goat translated by Edith Grossman. Mario Vargas Llosa / Peruvian / 2001 / 404 pages. Their faces powdered with turmeric. Now here I am with Feast of the Goat by Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, a story which takes place in the beautiful Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic, and one that is definitely going on the favorites list for 2013. The Feast of the Goat (Part 1) Just another example of literal and figurative language. While I would love for the book to be explicitly literal, it is definitely not about the feast of an actual goat! A Dominican Toss of the Coin: The Feast of the Goat vs. In The Feast of the Goat, we have a stunning close-up portrayal into the lives of the dictator and his coterie of sycophantic cronies.

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