Who wrote In the Time of the Butterflies?

Julia Alvarez wrote In the Time of the Butterflies, first published in 1994. It is a work of literary fiction and is rated 'Essential Read' in our catalogue.

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In the Time of the Butterflies

Name: In the Time of the Butterflies
Author: Julia Alvarez

by Julia Alvarez · 1994

Literary Fiction · ranked #179 in category

The Mirabal sisters — Patria, Dedé, Minerva and María Teresa — are heroines of the Dominican resistance to the Trujillo dictatorship. Three were murdered on Trujillo's orders in 1960; Dedé survived to remember them. Alvarez's novel imagines their inner lives from childhood through to the assassination, telling the story of how ordinary women become revolutionaries.

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