by Julia Alvarez · ISBN 9788700272286
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«I Sommerfuglenes tid» is Julia Alvarez's novel about the Mirabal sisters, published by Gyldendal in 1996 (394 pages, in Danish).
Set in the Dominican Republic during Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship, the novel follows the Mirabal sisters and their growing involvement in resistance against the regime. Through their voices, it portrays family life, repression, and the struggle for freedom.
For those seeking a historical novel focused on the Mirabal sisters and life under Trujillo's dictatorship.
Julia Alvarez is an American New Formalist poet, novelist, and essayist. She rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004), and as an essayist the autobiographical compilation Something to Declare (1998). She has achieved critical and commercial success on an international scale and many literary critics regard her to be one of the most significant contemporary Latina writers.
