by Julia Alvarez · Punto de Lectura S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788466369985
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«En el tiempo de las mariposas» is the historical novel by Julia Álvarez, published by Punto de Lectura S.L. in paperback (496 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the Dominican Republic, it follows the Mirabal sisters, «las mariposas», in their fight against Trujillo's regime. Decades later, Dedé, the only survivor, recalls her sisters' story: Minerva's rejection of the dictator's harassment, Patria's joining the resistance, and María Teresa's transition from love to revolution.
The work was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in the fiction category in 1994.
Recommended for book clubs and readers of historical fiction.
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.
