by Julia Alvarez · Giunti Editore · tapa dura · ISBN 9788809037878
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The fictionalized story of the four Mirabal sisters, heroines of the Dominican liberation war against the dictator Trujillo, who with their indomitable fragility earned the name 'butterflies' in the underground resistance.
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.
