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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.

Translated from Spanish by Margaret Jull Costa



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The Movie Teller

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    A Paperback / softback by Hernan Letelier, Margaret Jull Costa

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      Publisher: Quercus Publishing
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 02/11/2023
      ISBN13: 9781780870533, 978-1780870533
      ISBN10: 1780870531
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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



      Trade Review

      For the first time and after many years, something new and original
      in Latin American literature

      * Le magazine litteraire *

      Hernán Rivera Letelier is one of the most original voices
      of the new Latin American narrative

      * El mundo *

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