Mario Vargas Llosa’s masterpiece, The Feast of the Goat, plunges readers into the final days of the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. The narrative masterfully weaves together three distinct threads: the story of Urania Cabral, who returns home after thirty years to confront a traumatic past; the intimate perspective of the aging and paranoid dictator himself; and the tense, fateful hours of the conspirators who plot his assassination. It's a profound and haunting examination of power, memory, and the lingering scars of a nation's dark history.