The Feast of the Goat [SEP] country of origin
commenting on the book's depiction of the relationship between sexuality and power, and on the graphic descriptions of violent events.
A film version of the novel was released in 2005, starring Isabella Rossellini, Paul Freeman, and Tomas Milian. Jorge Alí Triana and his daughter, Veronica Triana, wrote a theatrical adaptation in 2003.
Background.
"The Feast of the Goat" is only the second of Vargas Llosa's novels to be set outside Peru (the first being "The War of the End of the
. In 1966 he led democracy's return to the Dominican Republic after years of political uncertainty and turmoil. Indeed, he is, in many ways, the father of Dominican democracy" and Jimmy Carter complimented him saying "President Balaguer has set an example for all leaders in this nation in changing his own country and his own people away from a former totalitarian government to one of increasingly pure democracy."
He is one of the central characters in Mario Vargas Llosa's novel "The Feast of the Goat".