by Julia Alvarez · Editorial Alfaguara · tapa dura · ISBN 9788420483672
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«En el tiempo de las mariposas» is the novel by Julia Alvarez, published by Alfaguara in hardback (427 pages, in Spanish).
The novel recreates the story of the Mirabal sisters, three young Dominican women who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Dedé, the only surviving sister, recalls the struggle of Minerva, Patria and María Teresa and the personal and family cost of resistance against political oppression.
The edition, published on 16 October 2001, includes an illustrated dust jacket and consists of 427 pages.
A read for those who appreciate contemporary fiction with a historical and political backdrop, and stories of resistance and memory.
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.
