In the time of the butterflies /
Alvarez, Julia.
In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. - 325 p. ; 23 cm.
The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
1565120388 9781565120389
Mirabal, María Teresa, 1935-1960
Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960
Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960
Women revolutionaries--Fiction.
Novela dominicana
Literatura dominicana
Mujeres revolucionarias --República Dominicana --Novela
Historical fiction.
Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
118 PQ 7409 / A473i 1994
In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez. - 1st ed. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994. - 325 p. ; 23 cm.
The life and death of three revolutionary sisters in the Dominican Republic, told by a surviving fourth. One by one the Mirabal Sisters, as they were known, join the opposition to the Trujillo dictatorship in the 1950s, suffering imprisonment and torture while their men watch powerless. They are released, then one night their jeep is ambushed. A story based on real events by the author of How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
1565120388 9781565120389
Mirabal, María Teresa, 1935-1960
Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960
Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960
Women revolutionaries--Fiction.
Novela dominicana
Literatura dominicana
Mujeres revolucionarias --República Dominicana --Novela
Historical fiction.
Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
118 PQ 7409 / A473i 1994