The Movie Teller

By Hernán Rivera Letelier

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780870531
• ISBN13: 9781780870533
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"