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En el tiempo de las mariposas
Published 2005 by Plume, New York
ISBN 9780452286863
Bib Id 1091933
Copyright 1995
Description 427 pages ; 20 cm
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0452286867 paperback $17.00
9780452286863 paperback
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spa
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S Alvarez
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In the time of the butterflies. Spanish
Title
En el tiempo de las mariposas
Publication Information
2005 by Plume, New York :
Copyright Date
©1995
Description
427 pages ; 20 cm
Note
Originally published in English in 1994, as: In the time of the butterflies. This translation originally published: Editorial Atlantida, ©1995.
Summary
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.
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Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 5.8 18.
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Translated from the English.
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