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Alvarez, Julia.
En el tiempo de las mariposas /
Julia Alvarez ; [translated by Rolando Costa Picazo.].
In the time of the butterflies.
New York :
Plume,
2005.
©1995.
427 pages ;
20 cm.
Originally published in English in 1994, as: In the time of the butterflies. This translation originally published: Editorial Atlantida, ©1995.
It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead 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 death 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, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--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, love, and the human cost of political oppression.
20180315.
Translated from the English.
Mirabal, María Teresa
1935-1960
Fiction.
Mirabal, María Teresa
1935-1960
Novela.
Mirabal, Minerva
1926-1960
Fiction.
Mirabal, Minerva
1926-1960
Novela.
Mirabal, Patria
1924-1960
Fiction.
Mirabal, Patria
1924-1960
Novela.
Women revolutionaries
Fiction.
Revolucionarias
República Dominicana
Novela.
Novela historica.
Dominican Republic
History
1930-1961
Fiction.
República Dominicana
Historia
1930-1961
Novela.
Costa Picazo, Rolando,
translator.
Alfau, Antonio.,
translator.