![]() ![]() She is dreading the arrival of yet another interviewing journalist. The fourth sister, Dede, survived, and Alvarez begins to tell their story in Dede’s tired, exasperated voice more than 30 years later. 25, 1960, Trujillo agents murdered three of the sisters, the ones who had become national symbols of resistance. That was their code name in the underground opposition to dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, and on Nov. Julia Alvarez’s shimmering second novel, “In the Time of the Butterflies,” is based on the real story of the four Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic, known there as Las Mariposas, the butterflies. Our families, our colleagues, our politicians-what should our response be? Horror and revulsion, of course, but then what? Punishment? A helpless shrug? Depression? How about pity? Is there any reason to pity the pitiless? Some days the world seems full of the kind of people who catch a butterfly, admire it, show it with pride to others, and then pull its wings off. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |