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From 1930 to 1961, the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic with absolute power. In recent decades, novelists have created compelling stories of characters whose lives are defined, and often destroyed, by the fear and violence of this period in Dominican history. Sara Castro-Klaren talks about Mario Vargas Llosa’s 2000 novel The Feast of the Goat; Elizabeth Martinez discusses Julia Alvarez’s 1995 In the Time of the Butterflies; and Lucia Suarez explores Junot Díaz’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
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From 1930 to 1961, the brutal dictator Rafael Trujillo ruled the Dominican Republic with absolute power. In recent decades, novelists have created compelling stories of characters whose lives are defined, and often destroyed, by the fear and violence of this period in Dominican history. Sara Castro-Klaren talks about Mario Vargas Llosa’s 2000 novel The Feast of the Goat; Elizabeth Martinez discusses Julia Alvarez’s 1995 In the Time of the Butterflies; and Lucia Suarez explores Junot Díaz’s 2007 Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
