In the Time of the Butterflies, Paperback
Las Mariposas, the butterflies, four sisters who led the opposition to Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo’s dictatorship in the Dominican Republic, speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, in this seminal novel.
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I had never read anything written by Julia Alvarez but now want to read everything she's written.
This book caught me from the very beginning. The synopsis was intriguing and made me want to purchase this book and find out everything possible about the Mirabel sisters: the butterflies.
I assumed and was correct that this story was quite fictionalised but that did not matter.
Reading about these four women who fought in their own way to save a cou...read more
This book caught me from the very beginning. The synopsis was intriguing and made me want to purchase this book and find out everything possible about the Mirabel sisters: the butterflies.
I assumed and was correct that this story was quite fictionalised but that did not matter.
Reading about these four women who fought in their own way to save a cou...read more
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