by Julia Alvarez · Plume · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780452279964
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«En el tiempo de las mariposas» is the historical novel by Julia Alvarez, published by Plume in paperback (317 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the story of the Mirabal sisters, the Butterflies, and their opposition to Trujillo's dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. Through Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and Dedé, the narrative interweaves daily and family life with repression, activism, and the human cost of resistance.
Spanish translation by Rolando Costa Picazo. Reprint edition published in 1998.
For readers of historical fiction and contemporary narrative interested in Latin American history and twentieth-century dictatorships.
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
