![]() Newsweek A gorgeous and sensitive novel. Skillfully weaves fact and fiction, building to a gut-wrenching climax. Julia Alvarezs new novel, Afterlife, is available now. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarezs imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters-Minerva, Patria, Mara Teresa, and the survivor, Ded-speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillos 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. Book Synopsis 25th Anniversary Edition A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time. ![]() 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. ![]()
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