Bibliograph

In the time of the butterflies, Julia Alvarez

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In the time of the butterflies, Julia Alvarez

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

In the time of the butterflies

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Julia Alvarez

Summary

It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas-The Butterflies." In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters-Minerva, Patria, Mar?a Teresa, and the survivor, Ded?-speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression

Target audience

adult

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