# Butterfly's Tongue

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- Book: [Butterfly's Tongue](https://www.bookquiver.com/manuel-rivas/butterflys-tongue) ([Butterfly's Tongue.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/manuel-rivas/butterflys-tongue.md))
- Authors: [Manuel Rivas](https://www.bookquiver.com/manuel-rivas)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9955-469-1
- Pages: 60
- Published: 2011-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.