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In the Time of the Butterflies
First edition
AuthorJulia Alvarez
Original titleIn the Time of the Butterflies
TranslatorRolando Costa Picazo
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish and Spanish language
GenreHistorical Fiction
PublisherAlgonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Publication date
1994 (English)
2001 (Spanish)
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages344 pp (first edition, hardback) 427 pp (paperback/Spanish)
ISBN978-1-56512-038-9 (first edition, hardback)
OCLC30319222
Dewey Decimal
813/.54 20
LC ClassPS3551.L845 I5 1994

In the Time of the Butterflies is a historical fiction[1] novel by Julia Alvarez, relating a fictionalized account of the Mirabal sisters during the time of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. The book is written in the first and third person, by and about the Mirabal sisters. First published in 1994, the story was adapted into a feature film in 2001.

  1. ^ "In the Time of the Butterflies". National Endowment for the Arts.

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