Devo essere sincera: ho riletto questo libro dopo 17 anni e posso ancora dire che mi piace moltissimo!Come nel caso di molti altri libri non ricordavo la storia in sé con la maggior parte dei particolari, ma rileggendolo ho visto riaffiorare moltissimi ricordi: la mattina di Natale, tutti i regali c...
A short but beautifully written book. The story is of an old man and his struggle with finding somewhere he belongs and his battle with encroaching civilization moving in on his Amazon homeland.
Briefly: This compelling and efficient novella grabs readers and quickly embeds them within the life of an aging Ecuadoran whose first, and only love, has died after a brief and unproductive marriage, leaving the much younger Antonio José Bolívar Proaño procreatively unaccomplished, as well as, a f...
With this book I've completed the Romanian translations available for Sepúlveda. None of them is as good as The Old Man Who Read Love Stories, but I became attached to his writing style: sometimes funny, sometimes poetical, pleasant as a mild-sweet cake, simple as a white summer dress, with magical ...
A 1001 CBYMRBYGU. A group of cats encounter a seagull who has run into an oil slick. The gull is gravely ill and begs the cats to promise to care for the last egg she has laid and to teach the baby gull to fly. The cats promise. It is more difficult to teach a bird to fly than the cats realized, but...
given to me by zé on some birthdayI read this book in about an hour or so, but I just loved it so! My mother had been hassling me to read for the past 5 years or so, but I kept dismissing her. I’m glad I finally took her advice!One day, a seagull caught in an oilspill lands in the balcony where a ca...
Totally different from The Old Man Who Read Love Stories. Sepulveda wrote a noir, hard boiled post-Berlin wall treasure hunt with characters that have nothing or very little to lose. Hard, rough but smart characters. Hard men that spent their lives fighting, plotting, surviving. The lead character i...
First novel by exile Chilian writer Luis Sepulveda. This is a wonderful lyrical tale of survival in a wild and dangerous nature by accepting it and not destroying it. Antonio came to the deep of the Amazon forest to start a new life instead he found death, extreme condition and ultimately freedom. F...
A very quick reading suggested to everyone who's fascinated by travel literature. I still haven't put my eyes on the famous Bruce Chatwin's diaries from Patagonia, but the way in which Sepulveda writes about this Englishman is quite sympathetic. Indeed you can't write anything about Patagonia withou...
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