In the Time of the Butterflies, Paperback

In the Time of the Butterflies, Paperback

<DIV><B>25th Anniversary Edition<BR /><BR /> "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time.€ --St. Petersburg Times</B><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" /> <br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" />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 Le³nidas Trujillo€s dictatorship. It doesn€t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies.<DIV><BR /> In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, Mar­a Teresa, and the survivor, Ded©--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.</DIV></DIV>