Fiction. Literature. HTML: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.
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