Name: In The Time Of The Butterflies (penguin Vitae)
SKU: 53603160
Price: 483.00 ZAR
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Author: Julia Alvarez
ISBN: 9780143136545

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In The Time Of The Butterflies (penguin Vitae)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Julia Alvarez

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2021

Language

English

Pages

368

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

20.3x13.5x2.8 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN13

9780143136545

Synopsis "In The Time Of The Butterflies (penguin Vitae)"

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, María Teresa, and the survivor, Dedé--speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo's rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez's storytelling, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage, love, and the human cost of political oppression. Penguin Vitae--loosely translated as Penguin of one's life--is a deluxe hardcover series from Penguin Classics celebrating a dynamic and diverse landscape of classic fiction and nonfiction from seventy-five years of classics publishing. Penguin Vitae provides readers with beautifully designed classics that have shaped the course of their lives, and welcomes new readers to discover these literary gifts of personal inspiration, intellectual engagement, and creative originality.

Julia Alvarez

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Julia Álvarez es una escritora dominicano-estadounidense cuya obra ha marcado de forma decisiva la literatura latinoamericana en EE. UU. Su trayectoria explora identidad, memoria, migración y la complejidad de crecer entre culturas. Con una prosa clara y emocionalmente precisa, Álvarez ha construido un puente entre la experiencia caribeña y la narrativa contemporánea en inglés. En 2013 recibió la National Medal of Arts, un reconocimiento mayor a su aporte literario.

Es autora de obras verificadas como “How the García Girls Lost Their Accents”, “In the Time of the Butterflies” y “Before We Were Free”, todas ampliamente difundidas y estudiadas por su hondura temática. Además de su narrativa, Álvarez ha participado activamente en iniciativas educativas y proyectos de fomento lector, consolidándose como una voz central en la literatura diaspórica. Su influencia sigue creciendo gracias a su capacidad para narrar, con autenticidad y sensibilidad, las tensiones y revelaciones que surgen al vivir entre mundos.

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