In the time of the butterflies - julia alvarez

Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.

25th Anniversary Edition A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.

Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found 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 deaths 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 Le nidas Trujillos dictatorship.

It doesnt have to.

Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies.

In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, Mar a Teresa, and the survivor, Ded --speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillos rule.

Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarezs imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression.

Julia Alvarezs new novel, Afterlife , is available now.

25th Anniversary Edition A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.

Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found 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 deaths 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 Le nidas Trujillos dictatorship.

It doesnt have to.

Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies.

In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, Mar a Teresa, and the survivor, Ded --speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillos rule.

Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarezs imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression.

Julia Alvarezs new novel, Afterlife , is available now.