In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez Julia
A collectible hardcover edition of Julia Alvarez's modern Latinx classic about four sisters known as Las Mariposas, or the Butterflies, who fought to liberate the Dominican Republic from Rafael…
Specifikacia In the Time of the Butterflies Alvarez Julia
A collectible hardcover edition of Julia Alvarez's modern Latinx classic about four sisters known as Las Mariposas, or the Butterflies, who fought to liberate the Dominican Republic from Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship, featuring a new foreword by Maxine Hong KingstonA Penguin Vitae EditionIt is November 25, 1960, and three 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 the dictatorship of General Rafael Lenidas Trujillo. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies.In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, Mara Teresa, and the