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The Feast of the Goat
Mario Vargas Llosa’s "The Feast of the Goat" drags you deep into the suffocating grip of Rafael Trujillo’s dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Through the eyes of a returning exile, the dictator himself, and his assassins, the novel exposes how absolute power warps society and shatters personal lives. It’s a brutal, intimate look at tyranny’s dark legacy beyond politics.
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