![]() ![]() ![]() "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time." -St. 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. 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 hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas-"The Butterflies." Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. ![]() The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. 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 25th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Novel ![]()
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