Synopses & Reviews
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 dictator of Latin America, Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. The author recounts the story of Urania Cabral, a woman who fled from Trujillo's regime in Santo Domingo as a young child and returns to confront a terrifying past. A passionate story combining anger and bewilderment, it is unthinkable to accept the brutal happenings as reality, it is easier to believe that the brutality is only possible in the mind of the author.