In the summer of 1936, before the outbreak of the Civil War that plunged Spain into three tears of agony and terror, eight-year-old Moncho is beginning his first day at school. Butterfly's Tongue is about a friendship between the boy and his schoolmaster, born of their shared interest in animal and insect life. In Saxophone in the Mist a young musician discovers the meaning of music and of love in the face of a girl he meets on a foggy night at a fair; while in Carmina the boy listens as an old man relates how a village dog named Tarzan used to frustrate him in his attempts to woo his beloved.
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In the summer of 1936, before the outbreak of the Civil War that plunged Spain into three tears of agony and terror, eight-year-old Moncho is beginning his first day at school. while in Carmina the boy listens as an old man relates how a village dog named Tarzan used to frustrate him in his attempts to woo his beloved.
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780099554691
Publisert
2011-04-05
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
54 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
4 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
60
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Manuel Rivas was born in Coruña in 1957. He writes in the Galician language of north-west Spain. He worked as a journalist before turning to writing and his novels and short stories have won some of Spain's most prestigious literary awards.
Margaret Jull Costa has translated many Spanish and Portugese-language writers. Her translation of José Saramago's All the Names won the 2000 Weidenfeld Prize.
Jonathan Dunne's translations from the Galician include the poetry of Rosalía de Castro and the short stories of Rafael Dieste and Alfonso Rodríguez Castelao.