In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780452274426
- ISBN: 0452274427
- ISBN: 1565120388
- ISBN: 9781565120389
- ISBN: 1565129768
- ISBN: 9781565129764
- ISBN: 9781448733705
- ISBN: 1448733707
- Physical Description: 325 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition: 1st edition.
- Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994.
- Copyright: ©1994.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 -- Dede, 1994 -- A Postscript. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader/Renaissance Learning UG 5.8 18. Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.8 18.0 21632. Reading Counts RC High School 7.1 22 Quiz: 05813 Guided reading level: NR. |
Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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Genre: | Historical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. History. Historical fiction. Novels (texts) Historical fiction. Historical fiction. |
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