![]() 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 cost of political oppression. 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 hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. ![]() Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. In the Time of the Butterflies is political history rendered read through fiction format and through the gifted poetic, lyrical writing of what we can now claim as a national treasure: Julia Alvarez. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. In the Time of the Butterflies addresses the story of the Mirabal sisters under the regime of Trujillo and is related to literary works by Julia Alvarez. The program featured Julia Alvarez herself.īook description: 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. This session on In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez was hosted by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies on December 5, 2012. ![]()
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