Why does Urania Cabral return to her island in the early '90s, after vowing never to set foot there again? Why has she felt terror for life since she was fourteen? And why has she never experienced love in her life? In "The Feast of the Goat," his highly anticipated new novel, the great Peruvian author weaves a grand mural where History intertwines with small human stories, and where well-known historical figures—such as General Trujillo, who tortured 3,000,000 people without suspecting his "Machiavellian" downfall—cross paths with the fictional heroes of the book. With a torrential pace and his unparalleled literary skill, he returns to the "political" novel to move, warn, and denounce all those forms of power that survive by carving a path through heaps of corpses. The global critique hailed "The Feast of the Goat" as the undisputed masterpiece of Vargas Llosa's mature writing period.