In the Time of the Butterflies
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,…
Julia Alvarez is the author of the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies (a national Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Yo!. She has also published two poetry collections (Homecoming and The Other side/El Otro Lado) and a collection of essays (Something to Declare).
Julia Álvarez es la autora de De cómo las chicas García perdieron el acento, En el tiempo de las mariposas (un finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award) y ¡Yo!. También ha publicado dos colecciones de poesía y una colección de ensayos. Julia Álvarez vive en Vermont y en República Dominicana, donde dirige una cooperativa de café orgánico, y un centro de alfabetización y arte con su esposo.
In the Time of the Butterflies
Julia Alvarez; Foreword by Maxine Hong Kingston
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
Julia Alvarez; Foreword by Elizabeth Acevedo
Resistencia
Julia Alvarez; Mark Eisner
Antes de ser libres
Julia Alvarez; translated by Liliana Valenzuela
Before We Were Free
Julia Alvarez
Finding Miracles
Julia Alvarez
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
Juana Inés De La Cruz;Edith Grossman,Translator;Julia Alvarez,Introduction
Una boda en Haiti
Julia Alvarez
Un regalo de gracias
Julia Alvarez; illustrated by Beatriz Vidal
How Tia Lola Ended Up Starting Over
Julia Alvarez
How Tia Lola Saved the Summer
Julia Alvarez
