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- 'Butterfly's Tongue' tells of the friendship between a schoolboy and an anarchist schoolmaster, born of a shared interest in animal and insect life, which is destroyed by the eruption of the Spanish Civil War in the summer of 1936. Other stories are woven around characters who appear in this central story.
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Jan 1, 1999 · The first, The Butterfly's Tongue takes place just before the Spanish Civil War; the second one The Side of the Light is set in the final years of the dictatorship. Both of these stories feature young boys as the main characters, and the experiences are through their eyes.
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Butterfly's Tongue or Butterfly (Spanish: La lengua de las mariposas [la ˈleŋɡwa ðe las maɾiˈposas]; may be more literally translated as " The Tongue of the Butterflies "), is a 1999 Spanish film directed by José Luis Cuerda.
Known in English as Butterfly’s Tongue or more simply Butterfly, La Lengua de Las Mariposas focuses on life in Galician Spain just prior to the Spanish Civil War.
Summary. 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. Manuel Rivas. Penguin Random House, 2011 - Fiction - 60 pages. In the summer of 1936, before the outbreak of the Civil War that plunged Spain into three tears of...
- Manuel Rivas
- Butterfly's Tongue
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- Margaret Jull Costa, Jonathan Dunne
'Butterfly's Tongue' tells of the friendship between a schoolboy and an anarchist schoolmaster, born of a shared interest in animal and insect life, which is destroyed by the eruption of the...
Sep 10, 2012 · Discover the best of the city, first. Galicia, 1936. Eight-year-old Moncho (Lozano) runs away from his first day in school, terrified that his teacher Don Gregorio (Fernán-Gómez) is a flogger ...
