Interesting video produced by AARP for the 50th anniversary of the Mirabal sisters' deaths. There's a creepy reenactment at the beginning, but the rest features interviews with Dede and Minou (who's now a congresswoman!) and Maria Theresa's husband, Leandro. And shows the house where they grew up. Worth a watch.
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Thanks for posting that, Erin. That re-enactment is weird and creepy, as you say, but it's cool to see some of the characters as real-life people talking about the events, especially Dede and Minerva's daughter. I wonder what they think about the Alvarez novel.
I've been interested in reading "The Feast of the Goat" by Mario Vargas Llosa ever since he won the Nobel Prize a few years back. It's also about Trujillo, but focuses more on his assassination, although I think the Mirabal sisters are mentioned in that book too.
So interesting that Trujillo's brutality has captured the attention of so many great writers (Junot Diaz too) when there are so many brutal dictators in the world. Do you think there's something peculiar about his regime that makes it a magnet? I guess in the case of Diaz and Alvarez they have the Dominican heritage.
I've wondered that, too. Are there as many novels about Ceausescu or Pol Pot?
Not that I'm aware of. I'd love to read a novel about Ceausescu — his demise was pretty fascinating, and Romania is so naturally ghoulish.
I did read a great book recently about Kim Jung Il called "The Orphan Master's Son." It won the Pulitzer for fiction. It's an amazingly in-depth look at North Korea's especially creepy brand of totalitarianism and personality cult.
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