by Luis Sepúlveda · Guanda · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788823514386
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«Il vecchio che leggeva romanzi d'amore» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Guanda in paperback (160 pages, in Italian).
Antonio José Bolívar is an old man who lives in a cabin by the river, on the edge of the Ecuadorian Amazon rainforest, after a life as a settler marked by losses. He rereads love novels in his solitude and preserves the knowledge of nature he learned from the Shuar Indians. That knowledge confronts him with a dangerous ocelot.
Work originally published in 1988 as «Un viejo que leía novelas de amor», winner of the Tigre Juan Prize. This Italian edition belongs to the collection «Tascabili Guanda. Narrativa».
For readers of contemporary fiction who enjoy stories about the Amazon rainforest and the connection with nature.
Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda authored numerous poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, the language in which he wrote his first novel, El viejo que leía novelas de amor.
