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Audie Award Finalist, Non-Fiction, 2014In the picturesque town of Guzmán, Spain, in a cave dug into a hillside on the advantage of town, an ancient door brings about a cramped limestone chamber known as "the showing room". Containing only a wooden stand and two benches, this is where villagers have obtained for centuries to talk about their tales and secrets - usually accompanied by copious amounts of wine. It had been here, in the summer of 2000, that Michael Paterniti found himself hearing a larger-than-life Spanish cheesemaker named Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras as he spun an peculiar and compelling tale about a piece of cheese. An unusual piece of cheese. Made from an old family formula, Ambrosio's cheese was reputed to be among the finest on the globe, and was thought to hold mystical features. Consuming it, some said, conjured long-lost thoughts. But then, Ambrosio said, things had opted horribly wrong.... By enough time both men exited the showing room that night time, Paterniti was connected. Soon he was totally embroiled in town life, relocating his young family to Guzmán in order to chase the reality about this cheese and explore the fairy tale-like place where in fact the villagers conversed with plantation animals, lived by an ancient Castilian code of honor, and made their wine and food by hand, from the grapes growing on the nearby hill and the flocks of sheep floating within the Meseta. What Paterniti finally discovers there in the highlands of Castile is nothing like the idyllic slow-food fable he first thought. Instead, he's sucked in to the heart of any unfolding mystery, a bloodstream feud which includes accusations of betrayal and fraud, death dangers, and a murder storyline. As the town starts to spill its long-held secrets, Paterniti discovers himself implicated in the very story he's writing. Similar parts mystery and memoir, travelogue and background, The Revealing to Room can be an amazing work of literary nonfiction by one of the most accomplished storytellers. A moving exploration of contentment, camaraderie, and betrayal, The Revealing to Room presents us to Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras, an remarkable real-life literary hero, while also possessing a mirror up to the world, totally alive to the power of stories define and sustain us.

Category: Spanish

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Publisher	Audible Studios
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2013-07
Author	Michael Paterniti

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