In the Time of the Butterflies
eBook - 2010
Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2024, internationally bestselling author and literary icon Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies is "beautiful, heartbreaking and alive ... a lyrical work of historical fiction based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, revolutionary heroes who had opposed and fought against Trujillo." (Concepción de León, New York Times)Don't miss Alvarez’s new novel, The Cemetery of Untold Stories, available now! 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 Leónidas...
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Algonquin Books
- Language
- English
- Main Author
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- OverDrive Resource Page
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 20 GB |
ISBN | 9781616200992 |
Release Date | 1/12/2010 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B00APBPAZE |
Release Date | 1/12/2010 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9781616200992 |
Release Date | 1/12/2010 |