The Feast of the Goat

Press Reviews

• The Guardianby James Lasdun · Jan 2008

  <p>James Lasdun isn't falling for Mario Vargas Llosa's gold-digging femme fatale in The Bad Girl </p>

• The Guardianby John Sturrock · Apr 2002

  <p>John Sturrock on The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa's portrait of a dictator</p>

• The Guardianby Maya Jaggi · Mar 2002

  <p>At 15 he was a crime reporter. Still in his teens, he eloped with his aunt and later turned the story of their marriage into a comic novel. He has been attacked by fellow Latin American writers for his right-wing views and his political ambitions reached their peak when he stood for president in his native Peru. Maya Jaggi reports</p>