The Movie Teller
$29.73
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
12 March 2024
Summary
Maria Margarita, a young woman who lives in a mining town in the heart of the Chilean Atacama desert in the 1960s, has had the gift of telling movies since she was a child.
When a film starring Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper or Charlton Heston, or a Mexican feature packed with songs, arrives in the local village cinema, the exact change for a ticket is collected at Maria’s house and she is sent to watch it. When Maria returns from the cinema, she tells the movie to her father, confined t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780870533 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1780870531 |
| Author: | Hernan Letelier, Margaret Jull Costa |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 12 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 107g |
| Dimensions: | 14mm x 128mm x 196mm |
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Critics Review
For the first time and after many years, something new and original
in Latin American literature
Hernán Rivera Letelier is one of the most original voices
of the new Latin American narrative
Hernan Letelier
Hernán Rivera Letelier grew up and worked for many years in the saltpeter mines of Atacama, in northern Chile. His novel La Reina cantaba rancheras (Queen Isabel Sang Rancheras) catapulted him to fame, turning into one of the most widespread literary works in recent Chilean fiction. Two years later, he won the National Book Award again. His most well-known novel La contadora de peliculas (The Movie-teller) has been translated into 19 languages and is now a major motion picture directed by Lone Scherfit. In 2001, Rivera Letelier was named Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Literature by the French Ministry of Culture and in 2019, he received the Yasnaya Polyana Prize for El arte de la resureccion (The art of resurrection).
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