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

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.
Subject: Literature > Fiction.
Genre: Fiction.

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