by Julia Alvarez · Piper · tapa dura · ISBN 9783492038034
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«Die Zeit der Schmetterlinge» is a historical novel by Julia Alvarez, published by Piper in hardcover, with 463 pages and text in German.
The novel recreates the lives of the four Mirabal sisters in the Dominican Republic under Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship. Through their different voices, it interweaves their family and personal experiences with clandestine resistance to the regime. The recollections of Dedé, the surviving sister, frame the story.
This 1996 edition features the translation from English by Carina von Enzenberg and Hartmut Zahn. The original work, «In the Time of the Butterflies», was published in 1994.
For readers of German interested in historical fiction, the Mirabal sisters and Dominican history.
