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.Translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa
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A major film directed by Lone Scherfig ("Kindness of Strangers") and Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries") released on 3 November.
For the first time and after many years, something new and originalin Latin American literature
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781780870533
Publisert
2023-11-02
Utgiver
Vendor
MacLehose Press
Vekt
107 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144
Forfatter
Oversetter