The Spanish Teacher

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>...De la Cuesta's novel maintains an accumulating power which holds onto a reader's 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.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Tom Tolnay publisher</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Birch Brook Press and author of </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Selling America</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> and </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>This Is the Forest Primeval</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Barbara de la Cuesta's 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 author's complete realization of and connection to her character...</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-Don Berger judge for the Gival Press Novel Award</span></p><p></p><p></p>