[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: first ]

[ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: first ]

Obviously well-worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and

Obviously well-worn, but no text pages missing. May have highlighting and marginalia, but markings do not interfere with readability. Textbooks do not have accompanying CDs or access codes. Ships from an indie bookstore in NYC. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 416 p.

New York. 2001. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in

New York. 2001. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374154767. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 404 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Eric Fuentecilla. Jacket photographs: Palm trees by David Lawrence and James Schwabel/Panoramic Images, Chicago. Girl courtesy of Zefa Zeitgeist/Photonica. Author photograph by Miriam Berkley. keywords: Literature Peru Latin America Translated. FROM THE PUBLISHER-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 1961, 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 (including Urania's father, a secretary of state now in disgrace) 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 is already under way that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this magisterial and long-awaited novel, Mario Vargas Llosa recounts the end of a regime and the terrible birth of a democracy, giving voice to the historical Trujillo and to the victims, both innocent and complicit, who were drawn into his deadly orbit. inventory #34447.