Released in 1994, her second novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, has a historical premise and elaborates on the death of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.
The Mirabal sisters are also commemorated on the 200 Dominican pesos bill.
Las Hermanas Mirabals, also known as the Mirabal sisters, a group of four Dominican political dissidents active in the 1960s
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