Butterfly's Tongue

Manuel Rivas author Jonathan Dunne translator Margaret Jull Costa translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:5th Apr '11

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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.

ISBN: 9780099554691

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 4mm

Weight: 54g

60 pages