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In the Time of the Butterflies

Auteur(s): Julia Alvarez
Narrateur(s): Noemi de la Puente, Alma Cuervo, Bianca Carnacho, Melanie Martinez
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 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 General 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.

©1994 Julia Alvarez (P)2006 Recorded Books Créateurs de contenu latino-hispaniques Fiction Fiction de genre Fiction féminine Fiction littéraire Historique

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"Though murder, torture, and imprisonment are ever-present, she wisely choses to focus on the personal lives of these young wives and mothers, full of love, beauty, and, especially, hope." ( Library Journal)
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Pray for peaxe in the world so as not to repeat these injustices that happened.

Know history to not repeat it.

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Everyone should read this book. The story of revolutionary women is both moving and inspiring. May we all have the courage that the Mirabal sisters showed. Viva las mariposas!

Deeply moving and inspiring

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