by Hernán Rivera Letelier · Editorial Presença · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789722344791
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«A contadora de filmes» is the novel by Chilean Hernán Rivera Letelier, published by Editorial Presença in paperback (88 pages, in Portuguese).
María Margarita lives in a small mining town in the Chilean desert during the golden age of cinema. Since the neighbours cannot attend the premieres, they pay for her ticket so she can watch each film and then recount it with such vividness that she seems to embody the characters. Her gift for storytelling makes her the town's film narrator.
Published in Portuguese in 2011, this paperback edition from Editorial Presença consists of 88 pages.
For those who enjoy stories about cinema and life in the mining communities of the Chilean desert.
Hernán Rivera Letelier is a Chilean novelist. Until the age of 11 he lived in the Algorta saltpeter mining town, in the north of Chile. When it was closed down, he and his family moved to Antofagasta, where his mother died. His siblings went to live with his aunts. He stayed in Antofagasta, alone, until he was about 11. To survive, he sold newspapers. Later he worked as a messenger for Anglo Lautaro Nirate Company, until his thirst for adventure led him to spend three years traveling in Chile, Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador and Argentina. He returned to Antofagasta in 1973 and began to work at another company, Mantos Blancos. He married a 17-year-old girl when he was 24. Later he left for Pedro de Valdivia, another saltpeter mining town. He completed his seventh and eighth years of study at night school, and at the Inacap educational institute he earned his license as a secondary education instructor. Today he lives in Antofagasta with his wife and four children. He has received the Premio Consejo Nacional de Libro twice, in 1994 and 1996. His novel El arte de la resurrección won the Premio Alfaguara de Novela in Spain in 2010.
