Alvarez, Julia.

In the time of the butterflies / Julia Alvarez. - 1st Algonquin pbk. - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010, c1994. - 339 p. : ill ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 339).

Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.). Wilson's Fiction. Wilson's Senior High School. Books for the Teen Age (NYPL), April 2001. Kirkus Review, October 2007. Library Journal, April 2008. New York Times, September 2007. Notable/Best Books (A.L.A.), November 2009. Teacher Librarian, December 2007. Wilson's Fiction, March 2006. Wilson's Senior High School, November 2002.

Gives a fictionalized account of four sisters in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of General Trujillo.

Adult Follett Library Resources.

1565129768 9781565129764 (pbk.)


Mirabal, María Teresa, 1935-1960 --Fiction.
Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960 --Fiction.
Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960 --Fiction.
Mirabal, María Teresa, 1935-1960 --Fiction.
Mirabal, Minerva, 1926-1960 --Fiction.
Mirabal, Patria, 1924-1960 --Fiction.


Women revolutionaries--Dominican Republic--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Women revolutionaries--Fiction.


Dominican Republic--History--1930-1961--Fiction.
Dominican Republic--History--Fiction.


Historical fiction.

PS3551.L845 / I5 2010

813/.54 [Fic]