Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
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, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé―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.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: Spanish Portuguese English
Subjects
Fiction, Women revolutionaries, History, Historia, Revolucionarias, Ficción, Novela histórica, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, Fiction, historical, Fiction, biographical, Dominican republic, fiction, Sisters, fiction, Large type books, Fiction, historical, general, American fiction, Revolutionaries, Martyrs, Political corruption, Murder, Women rebels, Sisters, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, NovelaPeople
Patria Mirabal (1924-1960), María Teresa Mirabel (1935-1960), Minerva Mirabal (1926-1960), María Teresa Mirabal (1935-1960)Places
Dominican RepublicTimes
1930-1961Showing 7 featured editions. View all 16 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1 |
eeee
|
2 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3 |
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
4 |
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
5
En el tiempo de las mariposas: novela
1995, Editora Taller
in Spanish
- 1. ed. dominicana.
8484001768 9788484001768
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
6
In the Time of the Butterflies
1995, Plume
Paperback
in English
- First Plume Printing, August, 1995
0452274427 9780452274426
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
7
In the time of the butterflies
1994, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
in English
- 1st ed.
1565120388 9781565120389
|
eeee
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
Edition Notes
A Plume Book
Classifications
Contributors
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created February 12, 2020
- 11 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
December 19, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
October 8, 2021 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
November 20, 2020 | Edited by MARC Bot | import existing book |
February 12, 2020 | Edited by Coloradohusky | Actually fixed TOC |
February 12, 2020 | Created by Coloradohusky | Added new book. |