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In the Time of the Butterflies
Contributor(s): Alvarez, Julia (Author)
ISBN: 1565129768     ISBN-13: 9781565129764
Publisher: Algonquin Books
OUR PRICE:   $17.09  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Women
Dewey: FIC
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.65 lbs) 352 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 21632
Reading Level: 5.8   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 18.0
 
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It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leónidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas--the Butterflies.


In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters--Minerva, Patria, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression.

Contributor Bio(s): Alvarez, Julia: - Julia Alvarez left the Dominican Republic for the United States in 1960 at the age of ten. She is the author of six novels, three books of nonfiction, three collections of poetry, and eleven books for children and young adults. She has taught and mentored writers in schools and communities across America and, until her retirement in 2016, was a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. Her work has garnered wide recognition, including a Latina Leader Award in Literature from the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, the Hispanic Heritage Award in Literature, the Woman of the Year by Latina magazine, and inclusion in the New York Public Library's program "The Hand of the Poet: Original Manuscripts by 100 Masters, from John Donne to Julia Alvarez." In the Time of the Butterflies, with over one million copies in print, was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts for its national Big Read program, and in 2013 President Obama awarded Alvarez the National Medal of Arts in recognition of her extraordinary storytelling.