# The Movie Teller

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- Book: [The Movie Teller](https://www.bookquiver.com/hernan-letelier/the-movie-teller) ([The Movie Teller.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/hernan-letelier/the-movie-teller.md))
- Authors: [Hernan Letelier](https://www.bookquiver.com/hernan-letelier)
- Publisher: maclehose_press
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8087-054-0
- Published: 2023-11-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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