In the Time of the Butterflies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781613832059)

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 Leonidas 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, Mar a Teresa, and the survivor, Ded 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. 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.

Author: Julia Alvarez
ISBN-10: 1613832052
ISBN-13: 9781613832059
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2010
Pages: 339
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 1.10d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.8
Point Value: 18
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 21632 / In the Time of the Butterflies