by Luis Sepúlveda · Ed. Círculo de Lectores. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422687429
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«Un viejo que leía novelas de amor» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (120 pages, in Spanish).
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man living in the Amazon rainforest, takes refuge in the love novels he receives from the city. When a feline begins attacking the neighbors, the old reader is forced to confront nature and his own fears. A story about solitude, old age and the power of literature.
The novel, originally published in 1988, won the Tigre Juan Prize; this Círculo de Lectores edition is from 2001.
For readers of contemporary Latin American fiction and stories set in the Amazon.
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.
