In the Time of the Butterflies (Magill Book Reviews)
At a glance:
- Author: Julia Alvarez
- First Published: 1994
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life, Caribbean, Power, personal or social, Politics, Murder or homicide, Middle classes, Revolutions, Courage, Social issues, Brothers and sisters, Oppression, Farms, farmers, or farming, Adultery, Sisters, Heroes or heroism, Dominican Republican or Dominicans
- Locales: Dominican Republic
Three of the four daughters of Enrique and Mercedes Mirabal were murdered by the secret service of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo on November 25, 1960, as they returned from Puerto Plata, after paying their weekly visit to the imprisoned husbands of two of the sisters. Julia Alvarez, whose own family fled the Trujillo regime in August of 1960, when she was ten years old, captures in spine-tingling detail more than two decades of events that preceded these murders.
The first three sisters, Patria, Dede, and Minerva were born between 1924 and 1926. Teresa Marie, nicknamed...
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