by Luis Sepúlveda · (417) PORTO EDITORA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789720041876
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«O Velho Que Lia Romances de Amor» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Porto Editora in paperback (128 pages).
The elderly Antonio José Bolívar Proaño lives in the Ecuadorian Amazon and, thanks to the Shuar Indians, knows the jungle and its laws. To ease his loneliness, he passionately reads the love novels brought to him by the dentist Rubicundo Loachamín. His routine is broken when he faces a beast turned killer by the cruelty of poachers.
Portuguese edition from the LeR+ Plano Nacional de Leitura collection, translated by Pedro Tamen.
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.
