Why does Urania Cabral return to her island in the early 90s, when she had sworn never to set foot there again? Why does she feel terror for life at fourteen years old? And why did she not experience a single love in her life? In The Feast of the Goat, the new highly anticipated novel by the great Peruvian author, a great fresco is woven where History intertwines with the small human stories, and where well-known historical figures - such as General Trujillo who tortured 3,000,000 people without suspecting his "Machiavellian" downfall - intersect their destinies with the fictional heroes of the book. With a breathtaking pace and his unparalleled literary ability, Vargas Llosa returns to the "political" novel to move, warn, and denounce all those forms of power that survive by opening a path through piles of corpses. The global critique hailed The Feast of the Goat as the undisputed masterpiece of Vargas Llosa's mature writing period.