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Book

In the time of the butterflies

Call Number

  • FICTION ALVA TEEN (CEN)

Edition

25th anniversary edition.

Publication Information

Chapel Hill : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c2019

Physical Description

336 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Summary

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Notes

Originally published in hardcover by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.

"25th Anniversary Edition"-- front cover.

Includes Reader's Guide and other special features.

"This work of fiction is based on historical facts referred to in the author's Postscript on pages 323-324." -- T.p. verso

Contents

  • Dede, 1994 and circa 1943
  • Minerva, 1938, 1941, 1944
  • Maria Teresa, 1945 to 1946
  • Patria, 1946
  • Dede, 1994 and 1948
  • Minerva, 1949
  • Maria Teresa, 1953 to 1958
  • Patria, 1959
  • Dede, 1994 and 1960
  • Patria, January to March 1960
  • Maria Teresa, March to August 1960
  • Minerva, August to November 25, 1960
  • Epilogue: Dede, 1994
  • A Postscript.

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