The Old Man Who Read Love Stories
Nestled deep in the Ecuadoran jungle stands the remote river town of El Idilio, where widower Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in the tear-jerking novels brought to him from the brothel downstream. But the love stories offer Bolivar only temporary relief from what he judges to be the increasing...
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Nestled deep in the Ecuadoran jungle stands the remote river town of El Idilio, where widower Antonio Jose Bolivar seeks refuge in the tear-jerking novels brought to him from the brothel downstream. But the love stories offer Bolivar only temporary relief from what he judges to be the increasing stupidity of modern man—and the task he must complete. Winner of Spain's Tigre Juan Prize.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151685509 (0151685509)
Publish date: March 1st 1994
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Pages no: 131
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Contemporary,
Asian Literature,
Roman,
Spanish Literature,
Latin American,
Latin American Literature,
Indonesian Literature
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...
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...
Antonio José BolÍvar Proaño knew he could return to his village in the mountains. The poor forgive everything but failure.He had no choice but to remain with only his memories for company. He wanted to take revenge on that accursed region, that green hell that had snatched away his beloved and his d...
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