IN THE TIME OF THE BUTTERFLIES

Book ID/图书代码： 12560508B24135

English Summary/英文概要： It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful 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 Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo’s dictatorship. 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 hair ribbons and secret crushes to gunrunning and prison torture, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillo’s rule. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarez’s imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human cost of political oppression.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1960年11月25日，三位姊妹的屍體在多明尼加北岸一處150公尺深的懸崖下，身旁除了乘座的吉普車外沒有任何東西。國家新聞台在第一時間報導此事件，並稱此為普通駕車意外，絲毫未提及發生的經過，以及是否有倖存者。但其實大家都知道車上一定還有一位倖存者，而大家都知道這幾位女性就是多明尼加獨裁者Rafael Leonidas Trujillo將軍的死對頭，人稱她們為「蝴蝶姊妹」。
書中作者以虛構的四位主角Minerva、Patria、María Teresa及Dedé發聲，真實描述多明尼加獨裁統治下的面貌，世人所遭受到迫害。透過作者的文字及想像，帶給讀者深刻的省思，及彰顯出世人追求自由及反抗壓抑的勇氣。(Vincent)

Awards/获奖情况：原著小說已改編成電影！一部瞭解多明尼加歷史的經典小說

Rights sold:
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994; Algonquin paperback 2010; Plume Penguin Ediciones, 1998; Albania: Botimet Dudja,
Argentina: Atlántida,
Brazil: Rocco,
China: Yilin Press
Denmark: Gyldendal,
France: Editions Métailié,
Germany: Piper,
Italy: Giunti,
Japan: Sakuhinsha
Korea: Clema Publishing,
Netherlands: Luitingh-Sijthoff,
Norway: Gyldendal,
Portugal: Bertrand,
Spain, Mexico and South America: Alfaguara,
Sweden: Forum

Review
"A fascinating and powerful picture of a family and a nation’s history." ---The Dallas Morning News

"A gorgeous and sensitive novel . . . A compelling story of courage, patriotism and familial devotion."---People

"Imagination and history in sublime combination . . . Read this book for the novel it is. Read this book for the place it takes you. Read this book and take courage."---The Denver Post

"A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time."---St. Petersburg Times

About the Author/作者介绍： Julia Alvarez is the author of five books of fiction, including How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies, as well as a book of essays; five collections of poetry; and five books for children. She lives in Vermont, where she is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College.
Julia Alvarez原籍多明尼加共和國，幼年移居美國。她承襲的西班牙語傳統為她的英語文學創作增添了濃烈的色彩。於1971年獲佛蒙特州米德爾伯理學院(Middlebury College)學士學位，1975年獲錫拉丘斯大學(Syracus University)寫作專業碩士學位。她擔任佈雷德洛夫作家創作班(Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference)的教師，經常為學生講課。她還在菲利普斯‧安多瓦學院(Phillips Andover Academy)、佛蒙特大學(University of Vermont)、華盛頓哥倫比亞特區喬治華盛頓大學(George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)和伊利諾大學烏爾瓦納分校(University of Illinois at Urbana)任教。她目前在米德爾伯理學院(Middlebury College)擔任訪問作家。
作品有小説《加西亞家的姑娘不再帶口音》(How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents)]、小説《蝴蝶時代》(In the Time of the Butterflies)、詩集《彼岸》(The Other Side)、《回歸故里：新舊詩集》(Homecoming: New and Collected Poems)、小説《我！》(YO!)、《以莎樂美的名義》(In The Name of Salome)、《守護內心的女人》(The Woman I Kept to Myself)等。

Format:TRADE PAPERBACK

Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994; Algonquin paperback 2010; Plume Penguin Ediciones, 1998; Albania: Botimet Dudja, 2011; Argentina: Atlántida, 1995 (OP); Brazil: Rocco, 1999 (OP); China: Commonwealth Publ Co., traditionanl characters, 2012; China: Yilin, simplified characters, 2014; Denmark: Gyldendal,1995 (OP); France: Editions Métailié, 1997 (OP); Germany: Piper, 1995 (OP); Indonesia: Indonesia: PT Serambi Ilmu Semesta, 2013; Italy: Giunti,1997; Japan: Sakuhinsha, 2012; Korea: Clema Publishing, 2009 (OP)í; Netherlands: Luitingh-Sijthoff, 1995; Norway: Gyldendal, 1995 (OP); Poland: Czarne, 2014; Portugal: Bertrand, 1999; Spain, Mexico and South America: Alfaguara, 1998; Sweden: Forum, 1996 (OP); Turkey: Ayrinti, 2015; Recorded Books. Film: Phoenix Production with MGM for Showtime; producer: Salma Hayek

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