In the Time of the Butterflies
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Alvarez, Julia
Narrator:
De La Puente, Noemi
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Cuervo, Alma
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Camacho, Blanca
Narrator:
Martinez, Melanie
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Recorded Books, Inc. 2005
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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 Gen. 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.

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Street Date:
11/23/2005
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781449890933
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Julia Alvarez. (2005). In the Time of the Butterflies. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.

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Julia Alvarez. 2005. In the Time of the Butterflies. Recorded Books, Inc.

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Julia Alvarez. In the Time of the Butterflies. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2005.

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