En el tiempo de las mariposas / Julia Alvarez.
A story based on actual events evokes the horror of the Dominican Republic under dictator General Trujillo, as three sisters die in a jeep "accident."
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, MarÃa 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.
Una historia basada en hechos reales evoca el horror de la República Dominicana bajo el dictador General Trujillo, como tres hermanas mueren en un jeep "accidente."
Record details
- ISBN: 0452286867
- ISBN: 9780452286863
- Physical Description: 427 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: New York : Plume, 2005.
Content descriptions
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 18 21632.Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 5.8 18.
- Language Note:
- In Spanish. Translated from the English.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Statesville Main Library | IRE2033675 (Text) | IRE2033675 | Adult Foreign Language Fiction | In process | - |
