by Luis Sepúlveda · METAILIE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782864241270
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«Le Vieux qui lisait des romans d'amour» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Métailié in paperback (124 pages, in French).
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man from the Amazon who has learned to know and respect the jungle alongside the Shuar indigenous people, finds solace in love novels until a jaguar begins to kill in the region and he must face the animal.
The novel «Un viejo que leía novelas de amor», originally published in 1988, was translated by François Maspero for this edition and won the Tigre Juan Prize.
For readers interested in Latin American narrative and stories set in the Amazon rainforest.
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.
