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Fiesta del Chivo
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Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Title: Fiesta del Chivo
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Pages: 600
Release Date: 2017-05-30
Details: Vargas Llosa, Premio Nobel de Literatura y Pr'incipe de Asturias de las Letras, relata el fin de una era dando voz al impecable e implacable general Trujillo, apodado el Chivo, y al sosegado y h'abil doctor Balaguer (sempiterno presidente de la Rep'ublica Dominicana). Uno de los mejores libros en espa~nol de los 'ultimos 25 a~nos seg'un Babelia. ?Por qu'e regresa Urania Cabral a la isla que jur'o no volver a pisar?
?Por qu'e sigue vac'ia y llena de miedo desde los catorce a~nos?
?Por qu'e no ha tenido un solo amor?
En La Fiesta del Chivo (2000) asistimos a un doble retorno. Mientras Urania visita a su padre en Santo Domingo, volvemos a 1961, cuando la capital dominicana a'un se llamaba Ciudad Trujillo. All'i un hombre que no suda tiraniza a tres millones de personas sin saber que se gesta una maquiav'elica transici'on a la democracia.
Con un ritmo y una precisi'on dif'icilmente superables, este peruano universal muestra que la pol'itica puede consistir en abrirse camino entre cad'averes, y que un ser inocente puede convertirse en un regalo truculento. Mejor novela espa~nola del siglo XXI seg'un los expertos consultados por el diario ABC.
Rese~nas:
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Joaqu'in Marco, El Cultural de El Mundo
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Fietta Jarque, Babelia
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Andr'es Magro, Diario 16
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Javier Aparicio, El Peri'odico de Catalunya
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Francisco Garc'ia P'erez, La Nueva Espa~na
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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 l961, 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 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 already underway that will have bloody consequences of its own. In this 'masterpiece of Latin American and world literature, and one of the finest political novels ever written' (Bookforum), 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.
EAN: 9788490625637
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.48 Inches, Length: 4.92 Inches, Weight: 0.87743980276 Pounds, Width: 1.04 Inches
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