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. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas-the Butterflies. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. Petersburg Times 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. About the Book Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.īook Synopsis 25th Anniversary Edition "A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time." -St.
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