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Product Identifiers
PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN-101565120388
ISBN-139781565120389
eBay Product ID (ePID)958209
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn the Time of the Butterflies
Number of Pages344 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicContemporary Women, Literary, Biographical, Historical
Publication Year1994
GenreFiction
AuthorJulia Alvarez
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN94-015004
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Imagination and history in sublime combination . . . Read this book for the novel it is. Read this book for the place it takes you. Read this book and take courage." -- The Denver Post, "Imagination and history in sublime combination . . . Read this book for the novel it is. Read this book for the place it takes you. Read this book and take courage." � The Denver Post, "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." -- People, "A fascinating and powerful picture of a family and a nation "s history." � The Dallas Morning News, "A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion." � People
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisIt 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 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, Maria Teresa, and the survivor, Dede 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 and love, and the human cost of political oppression. ", 25th Anniversary Edition "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time." --St. 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 Leónidas 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 secret crushes to gunrunning, 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 and love, and the human costs of political oppression.
LC Classification NumberPS3551.L845I5 1994
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