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In the Time of the Butterflies

Alvarez, Julia


onbepaald | 01-01-2010 | 339 pagina's

9781565129764

Paperback / softback


€ 18,50

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Korte beschrijving/Annotatie

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 Trujillo’s dictatorship. It doesn’t have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies.


In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--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.

Details

EAN :9781565129764
Auteur: 
Uitgever :Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V.
Publicatie datum :  01-01-2010
Uitvoering :Paperback / softback
Taal/Talen : onbepaald
Hoogte :203 mm
Breedte :140 mm
Dikte :19 mm
Gewicht :340 gr
Status : Bestelbaar
Aantal pagina's :339