by Luis Sepúlveda · Planeta · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788408462255
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«Un viejo que leía novelas de amor» is the novel by Luis Sepúlveda, published by Planeta in paperback (151 pages, in Spanish).
Antonio José Bolívar Proaño, an old man living in a remote Amazonian village, finds in romance novels a refuge against loneliness and the harshness of the jungle. His past with the Shuar indigenous people taught him the laws of nature and hunting, knowledge he must use when the ocelot threatens the territory.
This edition belongs to the Clásicos Contemporáneos Internacionales collection from publisher Planeta.
A work for readers of contemporary Hispanic American fiction and stories with nature as a setting.
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.
