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1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 23 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Narrated by various narrators. |
| Summary |
It is November 25, 1960, and the bodies of three beautiful, convent-educated sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. El Caribe, the official newspaper, reports their deaths as an accident. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Raphael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everyone knows of Las Mariposas - "The Butterflies." Now, three decades later, Julia Alvarez, also a daughter of the Dominican Republic and long haunted by these sisters, immerses us in a tangled and dangerous moment in Hispanic Caribbean history to tell their story in the only way it can truly be understood - through fiction. In this brilliantly characterized novel, the voices of all four sisters - Minerva, Patria, Maria Teresa, and Dede - speak across the decades, to tell their own stories - from hair ribbons to gunrunning to prison torture - and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Mirabal, María Teresa, 1936-1960 -- Fiction.
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Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960 -- Fiction.
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Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960 -- Fiction.
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Dominican Republic -- History -- 1930-1961 -- Fiction.
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Women revolutionaries -- Fiction.
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Cuervo, Alma.
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Camacho, Blanca.
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Martinez, Melanie.
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De La Puente, Noemi.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781449890933 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1449890938 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13507071 |
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