by Luis Sepúlveda · RL Libri · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788846200365
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«Patagonia Express» is the travel book by Luis Sepúlveda, published by RL Libri in paperback (144 pages, in Italian).
In these travel notes, Luis Sepúlveda journeys through Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, evoking a train that no longer exists and the stories of those who inhabited those extreme landscapes. Amid personal memories, exile and political activism, the author portrays characters and situations born of memory and of life in the south of the continent.
Italian edition translated by Ilide Carmignani, published in the Superpocket collection. Best seller. The original title is «Patagonia Express. Apuntes de viaje» (1995).
A title for readers of travel literature and for those who want to glimpse the characters and landscapes of the southern tip of the Americas.
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.
