In the Time of Butterflies by A Alvarez

In the Time of Butterflies by A Alvarez

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In the Time of Butterflies by A Alvarez

25th Anniversary Edition

A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time. --St. Petersburg Times 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 Le nidas 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 secret crushes to gunrunning, 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 costs of political oppression.

Julia Alvarez's new novel, Afterlife, is available now.
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ISBN 13 9780452274426
ISBN 10 0452274427
Title In the Time of Butterflies
Author A Alvarez
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published 2004-09-15
Number of pages 325
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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