![]() ![]() ![]() Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's storytelling, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression. 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 secret crushes to gunrunning, 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 the dictatorship of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. 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 sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. 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 Kingston ![]()
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