In the time of the butterflies
(Book)
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Published
New York : Plume, 1995.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Richland Hills Public Library - Fiction | FICTION ALVAREZ | On Shelf |
Saginaw Public Library - Young Adult Fiction | YA PB FIC ALV | On Shelf |
Watauga Public Library - Teen/Young Adult Fiction | YA HISTORICAL ALVAREZ | On Shelf |
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Published
New York : Plume, 1995.
Format
Book
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 5.8, 18 Points
Level 5.8, 18 Points
Lexile measure
910
Notes
Description
Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. On a deserted mountain road in the Dominican Republic in 1960, three young women from a pious Catholic family were assassinated after visiting their husbands who had been jailed as suspected rebel leaders. The Mirabal sisters, thus martyred, became mythical figures in their country, where they are known as Las Mariposas (the butterflies). Three decades later, Julia Alvarez, daughter of the Dominican Republic and author of the acclaimed How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, brings the Mirabal sisters back to life in this extraordinary novel. Each of the sisters speaks in her own voice; beginning as young girls in the 1940s, their stories vary from hair ribbons to gun-running to prison torture. Their story is framed by their surviving sister who tells her own tale of suffering and dedication to the memory of Las Mariposas. This inspired portrait of four women is a haunting statement about the human cost of political oppression, and is destined to take its place alongside Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Allende's The House of the Spirits as one of the great 20th-century Latin American novels.
Target Audience
910,Lexile.
Study Program Information
Accelerated Reader AR,UG,5.8,18.0,21632.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Alvarez, J. (1995). In the time of the butterflies . Plume.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. 1995. In the Time of the Butterflies. Plume.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies Plume, 1995.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Alvarez, Julia. In the Time of the Butterflies Plume, 1995.
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