Spanish Novels: La última cena

Spanish Novels for Intermediates - B1 #14

by Paco Ardit

Looking for Spanish Novels?I know how tough it is to find good readings to learn a new language.You don't usually have a large vocabulary or are able to read long and complex sentences.You'd like to go right to the fun stuff, but maybe it's too hard for you now.A typical Spanish reader isn't interesting or just plain boring.But this book is not like that.Learning with Spanish Novels is easy and straightforward. Forget about difficult long texts with English-translations. This book for Spanish learners is not like that. It will take you to the next level in less time. That means less effort and struggling towards your way to fluency in Spanish. Improving your Spanish can be lots of fun. A Spanish Book for Intermediates (B1) Both Fun & EasyLa última cena is the book number 15 of the Spanish Novels Series. This Intermediate Spanish Reader is packed with useful expressions you need in everyday greetings, asking questions, talking to friends, etc. Anyone who has an intermediate command of the Spanish language can take advantage of this book. You need to know conditionals, gerund, pluperfect and simple past tenses. Besides, in this book you will find longer and more complex sentences. A drama set in a luxury restaurant in Punta del Este, Uruguay. Celia is a despotic boss who treats badly all his employees. Nobody dares to answer back to her. Two of his employees will endure anything until the last supper given in the restaurant, before their boss leaves.This Spanish Book for Intermediates will show you the most used grammar structures in different situations. As the difficulty level is just right you will learn and enjoy it at the same time. This Intermediate Spanish book will definitely help you work your way up toward more advanced readings.Why Spanish NovelsShort sentencesShort chaptersEasy vocabularySimple grammarEveryday dialoguesAn Intermediate (B1) Spanish Reader in SIMPLE Spanish.From the First es el restaurant más exclusivo en Punta del Este. Los amantes de la buena cocina dicen que es el mejor restaurant en todo Uruguay. También es uno de los más caros. Una cena en Savoir está entre 200 y 300 USD, sin contar la bebida. Pero para los que van a comer allí eso no es mucho dinero. La mayoría son políticos, artistas u otras personas famosas. Apenas llegan al restaurant los recibe el maître. Luego, Celia les da la bienvenida y se queda conversando con ellos.Celia es la dueña de Savoir. A ella le gusta decir que es la dueña y la chef del restaurant. Pero la verdad es que el verdadero chef es uno de los cocineros. Celia ni siquiera diseñó el menú y la carta del restaurant. Aunque eso nadie lo sabe.Hoy es sábado por la noche y el restaurant está repleto de gente. Todo el Jet set de Argentina y Uruguay está presente. Celia saluda a todas las personas que van entrando, una por una. Recibirlos en su restaurant la hace sentirse una más del grupo. Cuando está entre ellos se siente famosa y poderosa.Learn Vocabulary With a Spanish Reader for IntermediatesLa última cena includes a short guide to download and install a FREE Spanish-English Dictionary.

Genres: Spanish Literature, Fiction

141 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 30, 2016

About the author

Paco Ardit is the author of the Spanish Novels Series. He was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1976. Since the early 1980’s he lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He loves learning and teaching languages, reading books, and writing fiction. His mission is to create the best materials for language learners who don't want to settle for easy and boring.

Combining his experience in learning, languages and fiction writing he comes up with fun and engaging graded readers in multiple genres: Mystery, Detective Stories, Romance, Comedy, Drama, and more.

Reviews

[Laura May]

Good reading practice, but an unsatisfying read - we don't find out what happens to most of the characters, after learning their extensive back stories.

[James]

I love the ending

[Ian Jones]

This is the second Paco Ardit book I have read at the B1 level and I think I'm ready to move onwards and upwards. That is a testament to the effectiveness of the book rather than to my gift for languages. To get to grips with it you need to know the conditional and the simple past and pluperfect tenses, and gerunds.

This is an intriguing and entertaining story told in sixty chapters. Each chapter is a page and a half, i.e. bite size. Just enough to make some progress in the story, but not too long that you start getting bogged down and lost. The best way to read the book is to read a chapter, then check any words or constructions you're not clear about it, reread if necessary to make sure you've got it, then move on.

The central character, Celia, runs a high class restaurant in Uruguay and is an insufferable narcissist. The sympathetic characters are her staff, who have to put up with her tyrannical management style. I won't spoil the plot but there is a denouement which most readers will find is a just outcome.

All in all a good book if you're at an intermediate stage in your Spanish. I will definitely read more books by Paco Ardit.

[Diana-Michaela Shaffner]

La última cena is, as the description indicates, a book suitable for intermediate Spanish students. The storyline, however, is incredibly depressing. There is not a single humorous sentence in this entire book. Every character is either suffering or making others suffer. The plot would have been ideal for the author to include some entertaining ironies here and there and maybe a plot twist or two but he didn't. At the end of the day though, the book will help with ones Spanish practice regardless.

[Marie-France Leclerc]

The book was okay and match the B1 level. However I didn’t like the ending, the cooks poisoning their boss on purpose because she was awful to everyone, is not the option I would have chosen. I would have ended the book with the cooks buying the restaurant with the inheritance one of them would receive since his sister wrote to him that his mother died recently. Then, the king could have fired Celia since she never created the menu. To me that is justice and revenge well done.

[Matt F]

I want to give it a better rating because these books are great practice and are of a decent length. But the ‘story’ was really bad, and the ending was worse.

My second Paco Ardit book, and I really enjoyed ‘Amor Online’. However, I fear that this Spanish learning series may be quantity over quality. I have another to read so will soon find out.

[Robert Palmer]

The books is fun and a good read for B1. The ending was disappointing, there was no closure on the Marcos situation (unless I missed it), nor on how his parents would make ends meet. Nor on the fact that ultimately the quality chefs were not the owner.

[Adrián]

Un libro muy accesible para usuarios intermedios. Los capítulos deberían haber sido un poco más largos, pero la trama es pegadiza e interesante.

[Martelka]

Brilliant book for learners. 2-page chapters. Interesting story. Read it twice already.

[Natalia]

Rozrywka mocno średnia i też ten poziom wydaje się być ciut zawyżony, spodziewałam się czegoś bogatszego językowo

Tyle tylko że była dobra do sprzątania biurka :)

[Ewelina]

Audiobook - przesłuchałam 5 razy, zanim wszystko zrozumiałam. 😁 Plot twist na koniec

[Cindy]

I listen to all the B1 Ardit novels and this one is the hardest to understand in my opinion. The words aren’t articulated nearly as well as in the other books. I can understand about 80% of the other B1 books and only 40% of this one. This one is read by a different person who seems to speak faster and less deliberately which is tough on B1 level listeners.

[Bill]

Disappointing ending.