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The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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When the Colombian magazine Semana surveyed 81 experts to pick the 100 best novels in Spanish published during the last 25 years, The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa’s gripping account of a political cult of personality run amok, finished in second place. Only Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera ranked higher.

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