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In the Time of the Butterflies [electronic resource] / Julia Alvarez.

Alvarez, Julia, (author.). Cuervo, Alma, (reader.). Camacho, Blanca, (reader.). Martinez, Melanie, (reader.). De La Puente, Noemi, (reader.). hoopla digital. (Added Author). Read by Alma Cuervo, Blanca Camacho, Melanie Martinez, Noemi De La Puente. (Cast).

Summary:

It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies." Now, three decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. In this brilliantly characterized novel, the voices of all four sisters - Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede - speak across the decades, to tell their own stories - from hair ribbons to gunrunning to prison torture - and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule.

Record details

ISBN: 9781449890933
ISBN: 1449890938
Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 23 min.)) : digital.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: [United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2005.
Distributor: Made available through hoopla

Content descriptions

Restrictions on Access Note:	Instant title available through hoopla.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Alma Cuervo, Blanca Camacho, Melanie Martinez, Noemi De La Puente.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web.