by Luis Sepúlveda · Ugo Guanda Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788877466440
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«Il vecchio che leggeva romanzi d'amore» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Ugo Guanda Editore in paperback (138 pages, in Italian).
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man living by the river in the Ecuadorian Amazon, keeps the wisdom he learned from the Shuar Indians and takes refuge in love novels. When the death of her cubs makes an ocelot dangerous, Antonio must decide how far to carry his respect for the jungle.
Work originally published as «Un viejo que leía novelas de amor» (1988), translated into Italian by Ilide Carmignani. Edition from the Narratori della Fenice collection; winner of the Tigre Juan Prize.
For readers of Latin American fiction and stories about the Amazon, nature, and the tension between civilization and the natural world.
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.
