The movie teller
Rivera Letelier, Hernán, 1950-2023
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María 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 María's house and she is sent to watch it. When María returns from the cinema, she tells the movie to her father, confined to a wheelchair, and to her four siblings, and soon she is telling the movie to a large and impatient public. Through this tender story, Hernán Rivera Letelier gives us the magical tale of village cinemas in their times of splendor - and of decadence.
Main title:
The movie teller / Hernan Letelier ; translated by Margaret Jull Costa.
Author:
Rivera Letelier, Hernán, 1950-, authorCosta, Margaret Jull, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2023.
Collation:
144 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Spanish.
ISBN:
9781780870533 (pbk. :)
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
2665275
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