by Luis Sepúlveda · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788483831113
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«La lámpara de Aladino» is the short story collection by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Twelve stories set in places like Patagonia, Ipanema, or the Santiago of the sixties. In the title story, the Palestinian merchant Aladino Garib narrates in Puerto Edén a tale of Phoenician traders; other pieces deal with failed dates, long loves, encounters with death, and hotels in remote places.
Volume number 667 of the Andanzas collection from Tusquets Editores. Spanish-language edition published in 2008.
Short fiction for the general public, especially appealing to readers of Latin American stories and followers of Luis Sepúlveda.
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.
