The Spanish Teacher

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award...De la Cuestas novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a readers attention not only through the forceful figure of Ordóñez but by demonstrating acutely how ordinary lives are impacted by the underlying social and political landscape. Compelling reading.--Tom Tolnay publisher Birch Brook Press and author of Selling America and This Is the Forest PrimevalBarbara de la Cuestas The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you--pace a great balance of description gesture and action charmed perfectly-tuned dialogue and most notably a character we follow as closely and sympathetically as if we were living right there inside the story with him... So many books show us a character who seems to capably hang and move like marionettes from the strings of a fairly competent puppeteer but rarely do we see a full drama like this where every bit of the writing extends from grows out of is part and parcel with the authors complete realization of and connection to her character...--Don Berger judge for the Gival Press Novel Award