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- In the time of the butterflies [kit] : by Alvarez, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)169420;
"They were the four Mirabel sisters - symbols of defiant hope in a country shadowed by dictatorship and despair. They sacrificed their safe and comfortable lives in the name of freedom. They were Las Mariposas, "The Butterflies," and in this extraordinary novel Patria, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Dedé speak across the decades to tell their own stories. From tales of hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, they describe the everyday horrors of life under the Dominican dictator Trujillo. Through the art and magic of acclaimed novelist Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies come to vibrant dramatic life in a warm, brilliant, and heartbreaking story that makes a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression."910LAccelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960; Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960; Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960; Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961; Women revolutionaries; Women revolutionaries; Martyrss;
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- In the time of the butterflies / by Alvarez, Julia,author.(CARDINAL)169420;
I. Dedé, 1994 and circa 1943 -- Minerva, 1938, 1941, 1944 -- María Teresa, 1945 to 1946 -- Patria, 1946 -- II. Dedé, 1994 and 1948 -- Minerva, 1949 -- María Teresa, 1953 to 1958 -- Patria, 1959 -- III. Dedé, 1994 and 1960 -- Patria, January to March 1960 -- María Teresa, March to August 1960 -- Minerva, August to November 25, 1960 -- Epilogue. Dedé, 1994 -- A Postscript.Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice; beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas.910LAccelerated Reader AR- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960; Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960; Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960; Trujillo Molina, Rafael Leónidas, 1891-1961; Women revolutionaries; Women revolutionaries; Martyrss;
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