Butterfly's Tongue

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.

Product details

• Authors: Manuel Rivas, Rivas Manuel
• Assisted by: Margaret Jull Costa (Translation), Costa Margaret Jull (Translation), Jonathan Dunne (Translation), Dunne Jonathan (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2011
• EAN: 9780099554691
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955469-1
• No. of pages: 60
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 4 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), Short Stories, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary