In the Time of the Butterflies

Name: In the Time of the Butterflies
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ISBN: 9781565129764

ISBN-10: 1565129768

ISBN-13: 9781565129764

Edition: 2010

Authors: Julia Alvarez

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Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands.

Book details

List price: $13.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date: 1/12/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Julia Alvarez is a writer and a poet. She was born in the Dominican Republic. Alvarez wrote novels and poetry including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent and In the Time of the Butterflies. Her poetry is collected in the book The Other Side of El Otro Lado. Alverez won the PEN Oakland/Jefferson Miles Award for excellence in 1991 for How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accent and was nominated for the 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award for In the Time of the Butterflies.