 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 World ) . It is also unusual because it is the first to have a female protagonist : as critic Lynn Walford writes of the leading character in The Feast of the Goat , and also Vargas Llosa 's subsequent book The Way to Paradise , " both are utterly unlike any of the other female characters in his previous novels " . 
 The Feast of the Goat <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>only the second of Vargas Llosa <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>novels to be set outside Peru ( the first being The War of the End of the World ) . It is also unusual because it <a href='drop_aux' title='3'><mark>is</mark></a>the first to have a female protagonist : as critic Lynn Walford <a href='uninflect' title='4'><mark>writes</mark></a> of the leading character in The Feast of the Goat , and also Vargas Llosa <a href='null_genetive' title='5'><mark>'s</mark></a>subsequent book The Way to Paradise , " both are utterly unlike any of the other female characters in his previous novels " . 
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