If anyone is stuck for ideas for a new novel to study at A-Level Spanish, can I strongly recommend 'El lápiz del carpintero' by Manuel Rivas (also responsible for 'La lengua de las mariposas') It's an amazing story set in Galicia around the time of the Civil War and written by one of Spain's best contemporary authors. On Saturday, my A-Level students interviewed him at the World Literature weekend in the British Museum - he was an incredibly warm, humble and inspiring person and this is a short clip from the interview where he tells us an anecdote from his childhood in order to explain how he uses his own experiences of people to develop his novels' characters.
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