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Dexter the very good goat
Dexter is the biggest, strongest, and most patient goat at the petting zoo, but that does not make it easier to stand still when the Keepers come to trim his hooves.
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The story of a goat
\"In his brilliant new novel, Perumal Murugan paints a bucolic yet menacing portrait of the rural lives of India's farming community through the story of a helpless young animal lost in a world it naively misunderstands. A farmer in Tamil Nadu is watching the sun set over his village one evening when a mysterious stranger, a giant man, appears on the horizon. He offers the farmer a black goat kid who is the runt of the litter, surely too frail to survive. The farmer and his wife take care of the young she-goat, whom they name Poonachi, and soon the little goat is bounding with joy and growing prodigiously. Intoxicating passages from the goat's perspective offer a bawdy and earthy view of animal existence and a refreshing portrayal of the natural world. But Poonachi's life is not destined to be a rural idyll-dangers lurk around every corner, and may sometimes come from surprising places, including a government that is supposed to protect the weak and needy. With allegorical resonance for contemporary society and examining hierarchies of caste and color, The Story of a Goat is a provocative but heartwarming fable from a world-class storyteller\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Fictionalizing the Language of Power: A Comparative Study of Pakistani and Latin American Novels
Latin American dictator fiction has a long tradition and is widely acclaimed in critical studies, while Pakistani dictator fiction began to emerge in recent years. The study is analytical and comparative research based on the contents of two culturally, historically, and geographically diverse novels—Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat and Mohammad Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes so as to locate their common and contrasting aspects. It is a qualitative study and through content analysis, it finds convergences and divergences between a Latin American and a Pakistani dictator novel. A special emphasis of the study is on power, dictator portrayal, torture, resistance, retelling/rewriting history, and representation. The study concludes that where Llosa presents the detailed description of events related to the atrocious regime of Trujillo, Hanif presents a partial and not the whole view of Zia’s dictatorship. Llosa misses no opportunity to create the sentiments of detestation and wrath against the despotic rule and his language throbs with bitterness and becomes satiric while unveiling the dark aspects of the Trujillo regime. However, Hanif, instead of giving a detailed and direct portrayal of certain dark aspects and brutalities, gives just oblique references to them and even the events which he brings to the forefront are presented in a very light and humorous vein which fail to arouse the emotions of abhorrence and denouncement against the despotic rule.
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Oh, look!
Three goats escape from their pen and visit a fair, but they run back home after they seem to encounter an ogre.
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Clover
\"Having a hard time making decisions, young Clover must think quickly and act decisively when her beloved goat wanders too far from the farm\"-- Provided by publisher
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