by Luis Sepúlveda, Pedro Tamen · Edicoes Asa · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789724113364
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«O Velho Que Lia Romances de Amor» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda and Pedro Tamen, published by Edições Asa in paperback (110 pages, in Portuguese).
An old man lives apart in a remote village in the Ecuadorian jungle, where his only escape is the love novels brought to him. When the balance with nature is broken, his past among the Shuar indigenous people allows him to face a threat that no one else knows how to stop.
The work was originally published in 1988 as «Un viejo que leía novelas de amor» and received the Tigre Juan Prize.
For those seeking contemporary fiction by Luis Sepúlveda and stories set in the Amazon.
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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.
