In the Time of the Butterflies

Alvarez, Julia

ISBN 10: 1565120388 / ISBN 13: 9781565120389

Published by Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC, 1994

About this Item

First printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket. One corner lightly bumped. There is a gentle crease affecting the front end page and the half title page. The DJ has a bit of crinkling along upper edge and a faint crease at bottom edge of inside flap. Else Fine.

Seller Inventory # 35302

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Time of the Butterflies
• Publisher: Algonquin Books, Chapel Hill, NC
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1565120388
• ISBN 13: 9781565120389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Julia Alvarez is a professor of English at Middlebury College.