Name: En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas
Rating: 4.079365079365079 (63 reviews)
ISBN: 9781464001314

Julia Alvarez

Rosie Berrido

En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas

In the Time of the Butterflies

Excellent book with historical accuracy, really loved how real the characters were. A great coming of age story in times of the revolution

Tammy Stelnicki

Victoria P

the mirabal sisters will always have a place in my heart and mind, they’ve moved me since i learned their history when i was young in school and they continue to move me after all these years.

their bravery makes me so proud and it breaks my heart they had such a tragic ending, they really deserved so much more. i will forever be grateful for them, for being one of my first examples of brave women, of brave dominican women. 

i see myself in them, and i know i’m not the only one. que vivan las mariposas🤍.

Carroll Lachnit

I'm listening to this in Spanish, and so can't say I get 100 percent of what's going on, but I am getting a lot of it, and it's GREAT!

Very moving--I'd like to read it now (Spanish or English) to savor all the details.

Deniz Hasanzaadeh 

A collectible hardcover edition of Julia Alvarez's modern Latinx classic about four sisters known as Las Mariposas, or the Butterflies, who fought to liberate the Dominican Republic from Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship, featuring a new foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston A Penguin Vitae Edition It is November 25, 1960, and three 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 the dictatorship of General Rafael Leónidas Trujillo. 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 storytelling, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression. Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as "Penguin of one's life"--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

Rachel

In the Time of the Butterflies is just too perfect of a book. It is a story based on the Mirabal sisters, three of them were killed by the Dominican Republic dictator Trujillo for being part of the resistance against him. The book is told from the surviving sister's point of view, Dede, recalling the events that took place to a interviewer from the US and also told from each of the sisters, Patria, Minerva, and María Teresa telling their childhood and their role in the resistance leading up to their deaths. The author explains that their personalities, some events and dates were created to make the story. This book teaches an important part of Dominican history while being a very captivating story about the real women who stood up to a dictator.

En El Tiempo De Las Mariposas

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