 Mario Vargas Llosa 's The Feast of the Goat ( La fiesta del chivo , 2000 ) recounts with " gruesome detail and dramatic intensity " the last days of the tyrant and dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo of the Dominican Republic , as he becomes infuriated that , despite being a long @-@ standing ally of the United States because of his anti @-@ communist stance , he is no longer in favour with the U.S. administration who have withdrawn their backing on discovering his extensive human rights violations . Following several interwoven storylines — those of Trujillo , his assassins , and the daughter of a man who once served in Trujillo 's inner circle of advisers , Urania Cabral — this novel reveals both the political and social environment in the Dominican Republic , past and present . The story opens and closes with Urania 's story , effectively framing the narrative in terms of remembering and understanding the past and its legacy for the present . 
