VARGAS LLOSA NOVEL ON TRUJILLO DICTATORSHIP.

"La Fiesta Del Chivo" ("The Goat's Feast"), the latest offering from Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, set during the 1930-1961 regime of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, went on sale here, reports Agencia EFE (March 22, 2000). The first run of 10,000 copies of "The Goat's Feast" -- in the hands of Dominican publishing house Editora Taller -- went on sale for RD$290 (about US$18) and sold out the very first day. "The Goat's Feast,"

released internationally in Spain two weeks earlier, is a fictionalized recreation of the atrocities committed by the Trujillo regime based on documented evidence and dozens of interview transcripts reviewed by Vargas Llosa over several years in the Dominican Republic.

VARGAS LLOSA NOVEL ON TRUJILLO DICTATORSHIP.

"La Fiesta Del Chivo" ("The Goat's Feast"), the latest offering from Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa, set during the 1930-1961 regime of Dominican dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, went on sale here, reports Agencia EFE (March 22, 2000). The first run of 10,000 copies of "The Goat's Feast" -- in the hands of Dominican publishing house Editora Taller -- …