The Spanish Teacher

Winner of the Gival Press Novel Award

"...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."

-Tom Tolnay, publisher,

Birch Brook Press and author of Selling America and This Is the Forest Primeval

"Barbara de la Cuesta's The Spanish Teacher has everything to thrill you-pace, ...