The Movie Teller, by Hernán Rivera Letelier, tells the story of María Margarita, a girl with the gift of recounting films in a unique way. When films featuring Marilyn Monroe, Gary Cooper, or Charlton Heston arrive in town, her family scrapes together just enough money for her to go see them, and upon returning from the cinema, she must recount them to her father and siblings in such detail that they seem filmed in Technicolor. Thus, María Margarita becomes the best movie teller in the area, in a magical novel about the splendor and decline of cinemas in the Chilean pampa.

Hernán Rivera Letelier (Talca, 1950) is one of the most widely read Chilean storytellers and a chronicler of life in the nitrate pampa; this novel has been translated into more than fifteen languages and adapted into a film.

• Publisher: Alfaguara
• Author: Hernán Rivera Letelier
• Language: Spanish
• Number of pages: 128
• Binding: Softcover
• Genre: Fiction / Chilean Narrative

Publisher: Alfaguara · Shipping: All of Chile